A clone of the popular news reading app Feedly with the following functionality:
Rails:
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opens rss feeds, parses the resulting data into articles, and saves said articles in the database
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saves user profiles and verifies their accounts upon log in using BCrypt
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handles api requests
Backbone:
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handles all interaction on the application after a root page is rendered
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allows users to search for feeds and news articles by making AJAX requests and rendering new views with the results
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allows loggedin users to save feeds to their accounts
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dynamically alters loggedin users navbar based on their feeds
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ensures only one Backbone model of every Rails model exists, significanly improving performance