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Welcome to NewsEd!

Welcome to our web application NewsEd for Assignment 2 for CSC309.

NewsEd is an application in helping you find personalised news article pertaining to your tastes.

Who We Are

With the tangle of different news source prevalent in today's media, we feel that it is difficult for one to find the information they want.

As a group of students, we've decided to build this web application to better help individuals explore and analyse a variety of different news mediums that best interests them.

With this in mind, there are three important principles our application revolves around.

Specificity

Everybody has different likes and interests and this is something we value as we want to find you the articles that you most care about in today's world.

Presentation

Nobody likes a convoluted, ambiguous and hard to read website, so we design our application with the principles in mind that will best fit our user audience.

Reliability

Fake news is a worrying trend in today's society and we want to make sure that we only pick and relay to you the most reliable and trusted news sources.

How We Work

We work by providing you a short interactive survey to complete before you enter the site.

This way, we are able to run our algorithm to best provide you a news feed that best suites your interests and needs.

Once your news feed is generated, you furthermore will also have the option to dynamically change your feed.

With all this said, we really hope you enjoy and find our application useful!

Group Members

  • Student 1: Gavin Shi Jie, Yu (1002195377)
  • Student 2: Jason Dam (1002366076)
  • Student 3: Shums Kassam (998816713)
  • Student 4: Patrick Ward (1004660137)

Application Technicals

Our application was built with webpack and Reactjs.

Here are the list of pages of the application:

  • First page is the landing page
  • After you press Get Started, the application takes you through a quiz with three questions to get to know your tastes and interests
  • After the quiz, you are shown the new stories that fit your tastes and interests
  • Lastly, there is a modal when you click on the icon in the top right corner that lets you choose the new stories you want to see

Debugging and Testing

For debugging, run:

npm install
npm run debug

Then you can open the webpage http://localhost:8080 to see the application. Make any changes to the javascript, and the page will automatically reload.

If you add a package to package.json make sure to run:

npm install
npm run build

Test

Open up index.html to see the full application after building.