katnews

An online newspaper website built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (NodeJS). The final project of the Web Application Development course at FIT@HCMUS.

Contributors

Our team includes 3 members, and each member does the work of a UI/UX Designer, Front-end Developer, and Back-end Developer, for a user role:

• Regular user, Subscriber: tranbaoanhh27
• Editor, Writer: phanquocky
• Administrator: trungitk16nbk

Techstacks

The project uses a number of open-source projects to work properly:

• NodeJs - Back-end JavaScript runtime environment.
• ExpressJs - Framework for building RESTful APIs with Node.js.
• Bootstrap - HTML, CSS Framework
• Sequelize - A modern TypeScript and Node.js ORM.
• PassportJs - Authentication middleware for Node.js.
• HandlebarsJs - Build semantic templates effectively.
• Firebase - Cloud computing services and application development platforms.
• Bcrypt - A library to help you hash passwords.
• Braintree - Tools to integrate Braintree's global payments platform.
• connect-redis - Provides Redis session storage for Express.
• connect-flash - Use Flash memory on Express 3.0+ apps.
• node-mailjet - Send email in Nodejs.
• puppeteer - Provides a high-level API to control Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol.

Deployed website

The website is deployed on Render: https://katnews-ptudw-20tn-nhom2.onrender.com

Install & Run on localhost

• This project was developed using NodeJS version 18.16.0. It requires NodeJS installed to run. Follow instructions on NodeJS official website to install NodeJS.
• Clone the project:

  git clone https://github.com/tranbaoanhh27/katnews.git

• Configure Database connection in ./config/config.json
• Install dependencies and run:

  cd katnews &&
  npm install &&
  npm start