Mohamed2del / evaluate-news-nlp-udacity

Evaluate A News Article with Natural Language Processing

first project at [Udacity]( advanced frontend developlemnt nanodegree from FWD )

This project aims to build a web tool that allows users to run Natural Language Processing (NLP) on articles or blogs found on other websites. When a user submits a URL of an article, the web page then dispalys sentiment analysis returned from meaningcloud API, based on the contents of the article.

Build Tools

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Node
• Express
• Webpack
• meaningcloud API
• Jest
• Workbox

Installation

Make sure Node and npm are installed from the terminal.

node -v
npm -v

1. Move to the project folder

cd <project directory>

2. Clone the repo

git clone <repo>

3. Install npm

npm install

4. Install loaders and plugins

# Choose the necessary installation for your development mode
npm i -D @babel/core @babel/preset-env babel-loader
npm i -D style-loader node-sass css-loader sass-loader
npm i -D clean-webpack-plugin
npm i -D html-webpack-plugin
npm i -D mini-css-extract-plugin
npm i -D optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin terser-webpack-plugin

5. Sign up for an API key at meaningcloud.com

6. Configure environment variables using dotenv package

   1. Install the dotenv package

   npm install dotenv
   

   2. Create a new .env file in the root of your project
   3. Fill the .env file with your API key like this:

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

7. Start the project

Command	Action
npm run build-prod	Build project
npm start	Run project

8. Open browser at http://localhost:8081/