Ask HN: How to build a Reddit/Hackernews like website?

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I am learning to code I wondered if there was a guide that I could learn and at the same time build a hackernews like website. I have seen some courses in Udemy, but I am not conivnced on the quality of the courses

Any help would be appreciated

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At its core, a HN clone or any simple forum is just a CRUD app. If you can make something in the language of your choice (with or without framework, it doesn't matter) that handles user accounts and reading from/writing to a database, then you're already a decent amount of the way there.

Beyond that, assuming you're using a SQL database and want threading, study methods to represent tree structures from that[0].

[0]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2175882/how-to-represent...

The closest thing to actual HN source code that's publicly available is probably Anarki[0] which is a public fork of Arc[1], a lisp created by PG. That codebase does already deviate from HN in several ways, is not guaranteed to be stable and doesn't represent what might be considered modern best practices for application design, but contributions are always welcome, and if you want to know how HN itself works, in general terms, that's probably the closest you're going to get.

You can also search "hacker news clone[2]" here to find examples written in various languages.

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

[1]http://arclanguage.org/forum

[2]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hacker%20news%20clone

Here's an HN-clone's whole repo: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

http://www.telescopeapp.org/

Thanks guys, looking at links below looks very useful!

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