Zinc Blog Aggregator (CPSC 319)

Deployed link: http://zinc.argv.io ✨✨✨

About this project

This is the frontend component of our CPSC 319 team project. Our objective was to build a blog aggregator to drive visitors to the blogs and posts of various local tech companies in Vancouver. We had three components in separate repositories: main website frontend, admin dashboard frontend, and backend server.

The main frontend was built using React.js, TypeScript, and Material UI.

Features

• Post view to show all approved posts, with company names and dates approved
• Filter by company and/or category
• Search by article title
• RSS feed and email button links

• Personalized front page after sign in or sign up
• Manage categories subscribed to for a weekly email digest of new approved articles
• Submit a new post to be approved

Installation instructions

1. Git clone the repository from the link above using git clone <zinc-fe link> or git clone <zinc-admin link>.
2. Install the required node modules using npm install
3. Configure the environment, either in the .env.development or .env.production files (depending on development versus production).
   • Change the REACT_APP_BASE_API to point to the local instance of the backend if you wish to use a locally deployed backend, or the deployed API URL.
   • Change the REACT_APP_ADMIN_EMAIL to an email address of an admin that you wish to be listed as contact for the website.
   • Ensure that REACT_APP_ADMIN_DASHBOARD_LINK is the correct link to the admin dashboard.
4. Start the frontend with npm start
5. The frontend should be running at the localhost port specified in the .env file. For example, localhost:3002.