1Balita is a Philippine online news aggregator from local news providers. It aims to provide a user to read news coming from multiple sources. The application is currently accessible in 1balita.com.
News items were being fetched from the timeline of tweets of popular Philippine news providers and can be configured from the file named providers.json.
Requirements: Node.js, Docker, internet access
Follow instructions for downloading and installing Node.js for your operating system from the official Node.js website.
Ensure you are installing Node 10 or greater and npm 6 or greater.
See the Docker installation "Supported platforms" section and follow the instructions to download & install Docker Desktop for your operating system (or Docker CE for Linux).
You can find more resources on Docker here:
Open up Terminal/Powershell/bash and navigate to the directory where you want the project to live.
Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/albertarvesu/1Balita
Navigate to the newly cloned repo:
cd 1Balita
Install dependencies:
npm install
Ensure that Docker Desktop is up and running, then run the following command:
docker-compose up
Wait for the logs to show "server started on port 3000", then navigate to localhost to view the app.
The server will automatically restart anytime you save a .ts or .js file within the server/ directory.
Running the tests:
npm run test