scraped-news-network

Web Scraping project that scrapes articles from Slate and allows users to leave comments on each article.

Using the Project

The homepage will display the articles

Using the deployed version

• Navigate to: https://scraped-news-network.herokuapp.com

Local Usage

• Clone this repository onto your local machine
• In the project directory, run $npm install
• Edit the PORT configuration in /bin/www if necessary
• Run npm start to spin up the server and use the project!

Built With

• Heroku- Cloud platform which builds databases and websites deployed online.
• JavaScript - The scripting language used to manipulate the DOM.
• Axios - Promise based HTTP client for Node
• Cheerio - A subset of core jQuery designed for server-side code
• Node - JavaScript run-time environment that exectues server side code.
• Express - Node package used as middleware to create routes.
• Express-Handlebars - Node package used as middleware to create templates for rendering pages.
• HTML5 - Mark up language used for structuring pages.
• CSS - Stylesheet language used to describe presentation of pages.
• Sass - (short for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) CSS pre-processor to make writing CSS easier with use of variables and mixins.

Contributors

Jason Scotto - jayjscotto