Akash1362000 / News-Web-App

News Web App 📰 built using Python Django 🌐 and NewsAPI 🚀 Fetches latest news. 😍 It is a Progressive Web App (PWA) which enables users 👨‍👩‍👦 to install it on their mobile phones 📱 (Android & iOS) as well as Desktop 💻 (Windows, Linux, etc.) 🔥

News-Web-App

News Web App 📰 built using Python Django 🌐 and NewsAPI 🚀 Fetches latest news. 😍 It is a Progressive Web App (PWA) which enables users 👨‍👩‍👦 to install it on their mobile phones 📱 (Android & iOS) as well as Desktop 💻 (Windows, Linux, etc.) 🔥

Checkout the live Website here!

Find the detailed project report here! 📜

Demo 🎥

Meet the Developers ✨🌟

Akash Shrivastava 👨‍💻🚴‍♂️📸

Akanksha Tamboli 💻🎨

Shreejit Nair 🎓🏏📱

Samiksha Naik 💃📸

Development 🛠

Note : Make sure you have Python version 3.8+ and Postgres 14 or above

Environment Setup

$ git clone https://github.com/Akash1362000/News-Web-App.git

$ cd News-Web-App/

Create .env file (refer .env.example file)

Generate SECRET_KEY from here

Get your NEWS_API_KEY from here

Database Setup

Install Postgres Latest version from here

Install pgAdmin from here

Create a Database using pgAdmin by following the steps mentioned here

Update your DATABASE_URL in .env with your DB details like USER, PASSWORD and DB_NAME

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If virtualenv is not installed (What is virtualenv?):

$ pip install virtualenv

Create a virtual environment

$ virtualenv venv

Activate the environment everytime you open the project

$ source venv/Scripts/activate

Install requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

$ pre-commit install

$ python manage.py migrate

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Create superuser

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

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That's it. You're all Set!

To run the server:

$ python manage.py runserver

Open your desired browser and head over to http://127.0.0.1:8000/

To exit the environment

$ deactivate

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Docker Setup (Optional)

If you want to use Docker to run this project, you need to do the following steps:

• Install Docker for your OS from here
• Run docker --version and docker compose --version [In Windows, you need to run docker-compose --version to check the version]
• If you see both the versions, then Docker is successfully installed on your system and you can follow along
• If you don't see the version, check with your Docker installation
• Open docker-compose.yml file and update the value of NEWS_API_KEY with your generated key. You can generate it from here
• Run docker compose up -d
• Run docker exec -it news_web_app sh -c "python manage.py createsuperuser" to create a new superuser
• Access the app at http://localhost:8000
• To stop the container, run docker compose stop from the project root
• To restart the container, run docker compose start from the project root
• To delete the container, run docker compose down from the project root

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License ✍

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Akash Shrivastava

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.