Trend of the World AKA "What's Trending" App

• The site is a single page app leveraging jQueryto make site appear to have several pages.
• This app queries multiple APIs for trending topics and caches the results in SQL.
• The app automatically updates the DB with new information (if available) every 10 minutes using an NPM script and Heroku scheduler.

Technologies and Packages

• JavaScript, jQuery
• PostgreSQL
• Heroku
  • Heroku PostgreSQL
  • Heroku Scheduler
• Node JS using the following NPM packages
  • animate.css https://daneden.github.io/animate.css/
  • body-parser
  • express
  • moment https://momentjs.com/
  • pg
  • superagent https://visionmedia.github.io/superagent/

Authors

• Matt Reyes
• Palo Mendoza
• Kenny Hong
• Steve Walsh