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Show HN: A Hacker News demo in NX, with real-time updates and animations

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Hrm, 84KB NX site vs. 12KB regular site. Is there 72KB worth of features/improvement? I understand it's just a demo, and that even at 84KB, that is a relatively small size anyway, I'm just always curious when I see a site rebuilt in another tool and it balloons in size compared to the original.

Is HN a site that even needs to be an SPA anyway? It's fun as a demo, but maybe this type of site isn't a prime candidate as a typical SPA use-case?

Either way it's always fun to build something as an example or learning process, so please don't perceive my comments as having any ill will. Maybe all-in-all I'm just an old-school HTML/CSS guy that is admittedly having trouble in this new SPA world (a discussion HN has had ad nauseum, I know)

Hi!

Thanks for the comment, I think it's pretty constructive. The site is bigger because it is a SPA. It loads every static asset on start, compared to the HN approach which loads only the current page. The NX framework itself is 12kb zipped and 10kb minzipped.

I agree, that it is not a typical use case, but it is starting to become a standard thing for new frameworks (like todoMVC). The point is to implement something that others implement too, to give a fair comparison to users (code).

After a second check: that extra 70kb (on top of the 12kb size of NX) is mostly from the FireBase and EventListener APIs that I use for real-time networking.

NX is an API for remote X Window System.

It's rather well known by that name. I would suggest a different name. Perhaps NXF.

A lot of people commented about similarly named projects in the recent past (mainly Nintendo NX). I am considering a rename along with the beta version coming out soon.

Here's this comments page within the app itself:

https://nx-hacker-news.github.io/story?id=12762530&type=top

A web framework that doesn't work on actual web browsers? What is the point of that? Supporting older browsers is like half the job.

Hi, is the DNS outage still a problem? Could you please let me know in a comment if the link is not working for you? Thanks a lot!

Definitely still a problem here on the US west coast. Also: https://www.dynstatus.com/

Thanks the info and the link!

These are some NX related links in case someone is interested and can't open GitHub (they might work for you).

The live demo of the app: https://nx-hacker-news.github.io, Home page and docs: http://nx-framework.com or http://nx-nxframework.rhcloud.com (to avoid CloudFlare)

Baltimore here. Can't resolve either host right now.

ETA: ...that said, looking at the Google results for "nx framework", one has to wonder about the quality and value of something that's touted with trumped-up rhetoric like "the best client-side JavaScript framework".

Valid point, I did that for SEO and I don't think it had much success according to the stats. Going to change it now, thanks.

Edit: Changed it to this. 'NX is a small client-side framework built with ES6 and Web Components. It features routing, data-binding and animations among other things.'

Still out in Arizona.

Not working in north midwest

DNS resolves for me now but the page doesn't load.

Strange. Is it the GitHub page or NX home page (or the HN demo page)?

Pretty slow compared to the real thing. The NX website is also down :(

About the speed: HN provides a real-time API for SPAs like the NX app, but it is an old fashioned serve-ready-HTML page (a speedy one). I found the API they provide somewhat slower than the site itself. I think other HN SPA clones also suffer from this.

About the site: It is working but things are sometimes not working at some places now because of the DNS attack (pages like GitHub and Twitter are also up and down today.)

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