Snewzzz

Created by: Matt McFarland

Snewzzz is a web app that will provide you the day's headlines from NewsAPI, but filters out anything to do with Trump or Covid-19 by default. You can un-snooze these topics by unchecking the associated boxes.

You can view it here: https://snewzzz.herokuapp.com/

Main Screen

Technologies Used

• Nodejs
• Express
• MongoDb
• Ejs
• NewsAPI
• JavaScript
• Bootstrap
• HTML
• CSS

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

• You have an Internet browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc)
• You have a code editor (VS Code, Atom, etc)
• You have nodejs installed

Installing Snewzzz

To install Snewzzz, follow these steps:

Via Downloading from GitHub:

1. Download this repository onto your machine by clicking the "Clone or Download" button
2. Download and extract the zip file to a directory of your choice
3. Open up the index.html, styles.css, and the scripts.js files in your preferred code editor
4. Open the index.html file in your preferred browser

Via command line:

$ git clone https://github.com/HeyImMatt/snewz.git

Install dependencies (see package.json file)

1. express
2. mongodb
3. node-fetch
4. helmet
5. ejs

$ npm <package name>

You will need a MongoDb account and database. Add your MongoDb URL into your process_env using your preferred method. I used a nodemon.json file.

$ cd snewz

$ code .

$ npm start

Navigate to your localhost address

Known Bugs

There are no known bugs at this time

Support and Contact

If you want to contact me you can reach me at [email protected]

License

This project uses the following license: MIT

Copyright (c) 2020 Matt McFarland