News Today

News Today is a social news aggregation and rating website similar to Reddit, built with React.

It has articles which are divided into topics. Each article has user ratings and can be voted up or down. Users can also add comments to an article and these comments can also be voted up or down. It is set up so a sample user ('tickle122') can both post and delete their own comments.

It can be found here: https://news-today-ben-marley.herokuapp.com/

API

The API can be found at https://ben-nc-news.herokuapp.com/API

The repo for the backend can be found here: https://github.com/bnmrly/news-today-back-end

Getting Started

These instructions will help you get a local version running, please see deployment for notes on how to deploy the website live via Heroku.

The app was built using Node 8.9.3 and cannot be guaranteed to work on an earlier version. Please visit https://nodejs.org/en/ for further information.

Installing

Please clone the repo from: https://github.com/bnmrly/news-today

Run npm install in the command line to get the required dependencies.

npm install

To launch the development server, run the start script

npm start

This will open the app in your browser at this address:

localhost:3000/

Deployment

I have deployed the database to mlab.

To deploy on a live system, set up a Heroku app and link it to your fork of the GitHub repo here.

Design

I eschewed CSS frameworks as I wanted to combine my CSS and JavaScript skills on this project. I embraced the challenge of writing all the vanilla css myself, taking inspiration from the American skateboard clothing brand Supreme.

Author

Ben Marley

https://github.com/bnmrly

http://benmarley.co.uk/

Acknowledgments

Thanks to my fellow students and all the great staff at Northcoders, with special thanks to Jac Darby.