Link to front-end repository

Name of student: Harold Mesa

Name of project: The Cuban Blog

Project's Purpose or Goal:

• A blog about Cuba, its most relevant recent events, its culture, and traveler's tips.

Absolute minimum features the project requires to meet this purpose or goal:

• User accounts granting access to a list of articles once logged in.
• Articles will have a comments section, and up-vote functionality. Users won't be able to add multiple up-votes, neither adding comments without being logged in as well.
• The blog will have a "Most voted articles" section, showing the most popular articles in descending order.
• Each article will be related to a tag (e.g. #Havana, #music, #history, etc). The blog will have a section to look for articles by any specific tag.
• Users can bookmark their preferred articles and access them in a "Bookmarks" section.

Tools, frameworks, libraries, APIs, modules and/or other resources:

• Front-end:
  • React.js (including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap).
  • React Router DOM npm package.
  • React hooks.
• Back end:
  • Node.js
  • npm Express package.
  • Middleware functionality.
  • MongoDB to store data for each article (e.g: Article name, article content/text, tags related to the articles, date published, up-votes, comments, etc.)
  • Axios library to handle network requests.
  • Firebase Auth to handle user creation and authentication (including auth tokens and firebase-admin package).
  • MongoDB Atlas Cloud service to host the database for the blog.

Once I finish developing the minimum viable product (MVP), I will work on:

• Users will see a list of trending topics related to Cuba (hashtags) from Twitter.
• Functionality to share an article on Twitter and/or Facebook.

What additional tools, frameworks, libraries, APIs, or other resources will these additional features require?

• npm i twitter package, an asynchronous library for the Twitter REST and Streaming API.
• Accounts in the Twitter for developers and Facebook for developer portals to generate a Consumer Keys and Auth Tokens to access data from these platforms.