Evaluate News App Project

Project 4 from the Udacity Front End Nanodegree program.

Description

This project is a web app that uses an external MeaningCloud Sentiment Analysis API to perform a check of user entered URL for positivity, subjectivity, irony.

The goal of this project is to practice:

• Setting up Webpack
• Sass styles
• Webpack Loaders and Plugins
• Creating layouts and page design
• Service workers
• Using APIs and creating requests to external urls
• Using NLP for interpreting meaning of texts

Prerequisite

This project should run on a local server. Node and Express should be installed on the local machine. Required packages listed in packages.json.

Create API credentials on MeaningCloud.com, then insert API KEY into the .env file.

API_KEY=**************************

Installation

Ensure Node, Express, Cors, Body parser, Webpack and all required packages are installed.

npm install

Set up webpack config files for development and production environments. Download files from this repo and navigate to the project folder. Afterwards, to start the server run these commands in command line:

npm run build-dev
npm run build-prod
npm run start

Navigate to http://localhost:8080/ in your browser.

Usage

To use the app, enter a URL in the input field and press the Submit button. Sentiment results will be displayed in the box below. If a URL is invalid, the user will see an error message. The app is fully responsive.

Demo

Author

Code is created by Irina Kramer, using starter code by Udacity.