Website code for a news aggregator and ranker based on language used.
Written with Python as a Flask build.
Before beginning, initialize the venv by calling python -m venv venv. If the venv folder exists in the cloned repo, remove it first and reinstall.
Next, activate the venv. If you are on Windows, use venv\Scripts\activate from inside the /api directory. This starts the venv.
Then install the following: pip install Flask cassandra-driver six python-dotenv. Flask is the backend this uses. The next two are for using the DataStax Astra database. The last is for the use of .env file which allows for storing information in the full environment for use.
Included in the backend is a flask app file, api.py and an Astra schema schema.cql file.
Algorithm and related processes stored here. If you are not using Astra at the moment, import your functions to api.py and create the route there. Otherwise, create a datastore object blueprint and use that.
Written in JS/TS with React.
This contains the package.json which means both of the following commands must be run from inside the /ui directory. When in development mode, open two terminals from the same location and call the following in each.
Runs the app in development mode at localhost:3000. Keep in mind that this project lacks a yarn.lock and package-lock.json so before anything can be called, please use yarn install or npm install.
Runs the api server (Flask) on at localhost:5000. However, there is no need for CORS as the ui has a proxy connection to the api.
There is a .env required for both the front-end and back-end. This contains environment variables you will need for this occur. In the front-end, add API_PORT=localhost:5000/ (this is development, this app was never formally deployed). In the backend, the .env, add your username and password as ASTRA_USER and ASTRA_PASS. To use the bundle zip, add your bundle to /api. For security reasons, those files and the security bundle for this project have been removed from this repository.
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