Hn Hired

Serverless + Searchable HN Who's Hiring Posts

Features

• HN Hired grabs the latest HN who's hiring post and presents everything with a searchable material ui experience.
• The app utilizes Next.js to run serverless via AWS Lambda; both the client and server exist within a function which eases cross-origin opaque resource retrieval restrictions.
• A manually curated list of trends are matched with a cursory regexp to give a loose ranking in the left sidebar.
• Fuse.js provides very fast client fuzzy searching for anything in the comments.
• Material UI components enrich the presentation with autocomplete, search chips, and a simple responsive layout.

Setup

1. Clone this repo and run yarn to install the project dependencies.
2. Run yarn dev to start the local server and visit http://localhost:3000 to run the app.
3. If you're unfamiliar with Next.js the file system is the main API. Anything within pages/ ends up having a corresponding route. With this application there is a single file, index.js, which is the entry point.

Serverless Deployment

Serverless deployment can be tricky but there are some wonderful tools available to bring everything together and make it possible. I opted to use Claudia.js - here's some important steps to make everything happen:

1. Setup the necessary AWS credentials. See here under Configuring access credentials.
2. Change your .aws/credentials so that there is a profile for claudia:

$ cat ~/.aws/credentials
[claudia]
aws_access_key_id = abc
aws_secret_access_key = 123

3. Build the project with yarn build
4. Create an AWS Lambda function and deploy it:

claudia create --region us-west-1 --handler lambda.handler --deploy-proxy-api --profile claudia --memory 1280

# If there are issues with the path to the bin you can either install claudia as a global package or simply just specify the full path to the respective bin, `node_modules/.bin/claudia`.

5. Any subsequent deploys should run yarn deploy