Web application that holds news in relational database (the implementation uses PostgreSQL) and serves them via website
Application consists of two parts which are decoupled and connected via API:
- news-portal - Django based back-end that holds data in relational database and serves it via API
- news-ui - vue.js based front-end that retrieves and shows news. Served separately via nginx.
The parts of the application are dockerized so are flexible in terms of deployment.
Each part has its own repository and included as submodules of this (parent) repository that is responsible for bringing up the application.
Current implementation uses docker-compose for the overall simplicity.
docker-compose.override.yml is used for running the project locally - it exposes frontend on port 81 and backend - on port 8000.
Thus, to bring up application in production - docker-compose file should be explicitly set:
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up --build -d
News can be added via several ways:
- Manually in Django admin (including attaching picture)
- From newsapi.org
- via internal Django command
- via external call to API
There is an additional service crontab which does periodic scan (once in an hour) of newsapi.org for the new articles of the given topics.
New articles are added into database of news-portal and shown in News Reader
The topics choice is set as comma-separated values of environment variable NEWS_TOPICS of service crontab.