HackerNewsCLI

This is a command line program that gets hacker news posts and returns them in this string JSON Format

[
  {
    "Title": "Tips from Poland on Old-School Zero Waste (2019)",
    "Uri": "https://culture.pl/en/article/tips-from-poland-on-old-school-zero-waste",
    "Author": "ericdanielski",
    "Points": "60",
    "comments": "42",
    "rank": "1"
  }
]

Dependencies:

• Newtonsoft.Json: Makes formatting JSON a lot easier https://www.newtonsoft.com/json
• .Net Core 3.1: I wrote it in this because I just wanted to get better at it https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download
• Visual Studio Code: Its a good editor and makes it easier to deal with dependencies https://code.visualstudio.com/download

How to Run:

• Make sure you have the dependencies above installed
• Clone the repo into a local folder on your PC
• Open the folder with Visual Studio Code
• If it says "Required assets to build and debug are missing. Add them?", click Yes
• Open the command line termminal. Terminal -> New Terminal
• Make sure you're in the HackerNewsConsole directory in the terminal
• Run the program using the command dotnet run --posts 10 and that will give you the first 10 posts on hacker news in the console.

-To Run tests, go to the HackerNewsConsoleTests directory in the terminal and run dotnet tests

TODO:

• Write more tests using Moq so that I don't have to make requests when Unit testing. https://github.com/Moq/moq4/wiki/Quickstart
• Setup with docker. It would be great if Windows didn't require you to have Windows 10 Pro to download the Docker Decktop app though.