NPR News Scraper is a web app that lets users view and leave comments on the latest news. Articles are scraped using the Cheerio library to scrape NPR news and then populates a Mongo database.
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Express: Handles all server requests.
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Express-handlebars: Renders database results on the frontend.
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Mongoose: Structures models for the Mongo DB backend.
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Body-parser: Parsers requests in concert with the express server.
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Cheerio: Scrapes data from the source, in this case, NPR News.
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Request: Initiates getting from the news site.
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Morgan: Logging tool.
The fullstack is on Heroku including the Mongo database hosted through mongolab (aka mLab MongoDB).
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Download Repo
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Run
npm install -
Set up Mongo DB called
NPR -
Start Mongo DB and then run
npm start