mokacoding

You might have noticed that each post on mokacoding has an Hacker News button. Hopefully you even clicked it.

Adding a share to Hacker News button to your blog is super easy thanks to the work of the guys at Segment.io.

You can go to their Hacker News Button website to use a wizard to configure the button and get the code, or use the same one I use for mokacoding.

Jade version:

script.
  !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

a.hn-button(href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submit",
  'data-title'="#{post.title}",
  'data-url'="#{post.url}",
  'data-count'="horizontal",
  'data-style'="twitter").
      Vote on Hacker News

HTML version:

<script>
  !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');
</script>

<a class="hn-button"
  href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submit"
  data-title="POST TITLE"
  data-url="http://your.blog.com/post"
  data-count="horizontal",
  data-style="twitter">
  Vote on Hacker News
</a>

There you go. If you found this post useful I would really appreciate if you could hit my Hacker News button, and the ones next to it too 😎.

Happy coding, and leave the codebase better than you found it.