/newsdrop

A Reddit-style article submission website built for a class project.

Primary LanguageEJSMIT LicenseMIT

Newsdrop

Newsdrop is an article submission website like Reddit that was built for a group project at CSUMB. It was built using Bootstrap and JQuery for the front-end, Node.js and Express.js for the back-end, and MySQL for the database. You can view the website deployed to Heroku here.

Description

Newsdrop is a website that displays user submitted articles and articles from Reddit. The homepage displays by default the twenty most recently submitted articles. Users are able to filter user posts by topic and time period. The Reddit page displays Reddit posts based upon entered search criteria. The add page allows users to submit their own links and descriptions as long as they haven’t been submitted before and users can edit their most recently submitted post. User posts are stored and retrieved from a MySQL database.