Comment by jerbear4328
5 days ago
Haha, my version makes a websocket connection to the official Firebase that the HN servers already send everything to, so it is zero extra load on HN
5 days ago
Haha, my version makes a websocket connection to the official Firebase that the HN servers already send everything to, so it is zero extra load on HN
Yours is the MUCH better approach. When I did it, no api!
That sounds interesting, are there any public details on this? Is it https://github.com/HackerNews/API ?
You can stream the ID of the most recent item with something like this:
Then you will need to iterate through the new item IDs and fetch them, e.g.
https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/45534174.json