This web app allow you to views headlines and full news articles from various sources(e.g BBC,CNN,ABC NEWS e.t.c). It makes it easier to check your favourite news station/channel for latest,top and popular news. It makes it very easy for you to keep up with news, anytime, anywhere, anyplace.
- Google Plus Sign in
- Search News Sources
- View Headlines based on selected source
- Choose Sort By type e.g Top, Latest
- Link to View full article from source
- View full news in app
- Share News via Social Media(Facebook,Twitter,Instagram,LinkedIn e.t.c)
- Add to Favourites
- View Favourites
You can access the app on heroku at Fast E-News
Alternatively, You may clone the repository and run the app locally to use.
- Clone the repository
- Install the dependencies using npm install
- Run npm run dev to start the application.
- The app will start on your local server.
- Run tests with: npm test
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React and ReactDOM: These were developed by Facebook and are used for building web pages that are structured as a collection of components. These components are kept as independent as possible. See this link.
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NodeJS: NodeJS is a server-side JavaScript runtime engine built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. It is lightweight, efficient and greatly used in building web apps. Please visit this link for more details.
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The Flux architecture: This is a design architecture for building stable web apps with, among other things, a unidirectional flow of data. See this link for details.
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Firebase: This project makes use of various components of the Firebase suite, including Firebase Database.
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Webpack: A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders," modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff
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News Api:News API is a simple and easy-to-use API that returns JSON metadata for the headlines currently published on a range of news sources and blogs
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Mocha: Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on Node.js and in the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun
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- No Local News Channel
- The user can not comment on the news/articles
- Fork this repositry to your account.
- Clone your repositry: git clone git@github.com:your-username/News-Feed-App.git
- Create your feature branch: git checkout -b new-feature
- Commit your changes: git commit -m "Changes Made"
- Push to the remote branch: git push origin new-feature
- Open a pull request.
This project is authored by Philips Blessing and is licensed for your use, modification and distribution under the MIT license.