rachelnk/newsapp

The purpose of this application is to help me practice flask concepts of API call and connections, template inheritance and deploying Flask applications to Heroku.

NewsApp

Description

This is a web application that displays different categories i.e. business, technology of news sources e.g. CNN, Indpendent. The various sources contain articles that are frequently updated, date and time the article was posted, author, an image and title . Upon clicking on a news article the user is redirected to the entire news article itself.

Authors

Rachel Kiarie

Installation Instructions

Prerequisites

• python3.6
• pip
• virtualenv

Cloning

• Clone the repository to your local machine. e.g. $ git clone https://github.com/Rachelnk/NewsApp.git
• cd NewsApp

Creating virtual environment

• python3.6 -m venv --without-pip virtual
• source virtual/bin/env
• curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

Running the application

• $ chmod +x start.sh
• ./start.sh

Testing the Application

To run the test cases:

python3.8 manage.py tests

Technologies used

• Python3.8
• Flask

Support and contact details

You can reach out via [email protected]

License

• MIT License

Copyright (c) 2022

Contributors:

• Rachel Kiarie