Angular for Journalism

Introduction to Angular

• What is Angular?
• What kind of problems does it solve well?
• What kind of problems does it not solve?
• Basic app structure.

Get a JSON API

• Get articles from JSON that looks like WordPress JSON API with title, body, image and categories.
• Run queries against the API in the browser.

Create a news site using the JSON API

• List of 20 most recent articles plus pagination
• Clicking title of an article async loads the body
• Filter by one category
• Filter by text
• Filter by one category and then text
• Filter by one category and then a second category

Optimize and Deploy

• Trim down API to get the most articles while keep file size manageable
• Add some CSS or imagery
• Deploy on S3 to handle major traffic

Authentication and Sharing

• Users can create acconts
• Users can favorite articles
• Users can share articles