Newsrun

Description

A Flask powered application where the user can:

See various news sources on the homepage of the application.
Select a news source and see all news articles from the selected news source in the application.
See the image, description and the time a news article was created.
Click on an article and read the full article on the source website.

The site is deployed on Heroku.

On your terminal, clone the project.

$ git clone git@github.com:peterken674/newsrun.git

Navigate into the cloned project.

$ cd newsrun

Create a start.sh file.

$ touch start.sh

Inside start.sh, add your API key from https://newsapi.org/ and the command for executing manage.py, which will start the server.

export NEWS_API_KEY='<YOUR_API_KEY>'

python manage.py server

Give the file execution permissions.

$ chmod a+x start.sh

Run the program.

$ ./start.sh

UI is not completely responsive to very large screens.
Does not perform check to see whether the news request returns something in the response.

If you have any suggestions, questions or in case of a fire, you can reach the developer via email.