colbyguan/tc

Edit: this is out of date since Techcrunch's new desktop UI

A simple app that provides an aggregation of the most (recently) popular Techcrunch headlines without the main site's extra UI fuzz eg. social media buttons and sidebars. The goal of the app is to get users directly to what articles they want to read without distraction.

• Cheerio for scraping
• Express for a 👏 single 👏 endpoint 👏 API
• React for front-end

Setup

1. This project uses Yarn
2. yarn in project root to install server dependencies
3. cd client; yarn to install client dependencies (based on create-react-app)
4. Start a local MongoDB instance
5. yarn start from project root which starts both the client and server

Helpful Things

• Using create-react-app with a Node backend