NC News Front End

Welcome to the North Coders News front end!

This front end provides access to the NC-News api allowing to post comments and vote of articles and comments

Getting Started

Prerequisites

To check if you have Node.js, npm, git and postgress installed, run these command in your terminal:

node -v
npm -v
git --version

If it any are not installed then follow the instuction on the respective links below to install:

• https://nodejs.org/en/
• https://github.com/npm/cli
• https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

Installing

Clone the repository to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/jstothard/ncnews-fend

Open the project folder and install the required dependencies

npm install

Deployment

To run this file locally run the following command

npm start

This will be hosted at http://localhost:3000/ by default

Hosted Location

This is live hosted on Netify and can be found at: https://nc-news-jstothard.netlify.com

Backend location

The backend is hosted on Heroku and can be found at: https://nc-student-tracker.herokuapp.com/

API repository

The API can be found at: https://github.com/jstothard/nc_news

Built With

• React - The UI library used
• @reach/router - The router used
• Axios - Used to handle HTTP requests
• Bootstrap - Used to create UI components
• React Bootstrap - The library used for React implementation of Bootstrap
• Formik - Form builder for React
• Yup - Form validation and parsing
• Moment - Handles time formatting

Authors

• Jake Stothard - Initial work - jstothard

Acknowledgments

• This was coded as part of the Northcoders course