Share to HN (PWA)

A simple PWA (progressive web application) that adds an option for Hacker News in the sharing menu of your Android device.

In other words, it's a handy mobile alternative for the official HN bookmarklet for us who often browse HN on their phone. That bookmarklet doesn't work in all mobile browsers, at least not in Chrome for Android. Furthermore, this works from any app, not just the browser.

⚠️ The PWA utilizes the experimental share_target attribute in the manifest, which as of September 2022 is only supported by Chrome and Edge. Check the up-to-date browser support info at caniuse.com.

Development

Prerequisites:

1. Some local HTTP server. E.g. install Node and run npm install -g serve
2. Install Prettier to your editor or shell.

Run:

• serve .