Evaluate News Article with Natural Language Processing

Project at Udacity Become a React Developer Nanodegree program.

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. Sign up for an API key at meaningcloud.com

5. Configure environment variables using dotenv package

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

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

6. Start the project

To Run Project

(Currently, prod mode allows you to see the results of the API fetch):

• cd into your new folder and run in prod mode
• npm install
• npm run build-prod to generate a dist folder for prod
• npm run start to run the Express server on port 8080

Note: The web page can be accessed with localhost:8080

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

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