Getting it running

So one of our APIs doesn't work well with CORS and so for it to actually work you need to run Chrome with security disabled (obvioulsy a bad idea but our project is awesome). You need to run the following command. Let us know if you have problems.

For OS X close Chrome and open in Terminal: open -a Google\ Chrome --args --disable-web-security --user-data-dir

On Linux it should be something like: google-chrome --disable-web-security --user-data-dir

News Analysis API

The aim of our api is to take the top ten news headlines from News API and pass these to Text Razor, which will return a category analysis of each headline. Using the data returned from News Razor, we'll create an inforgraphic (probably a pie chart) that shows the emphasis of the news by category.

Product

MVP

• Mobile-first, modular design
• User can click buttons or menu items that say 'get the news' or 'analyse the news'
• 'Get the news' would return headline links to news features
• 'Analyse the news' would return the infographic

Wireframes

• Mobile-first landing page


• Mobile-first landing page with expanded headlines content


• Mobile-first infographic page

• Desktop landing page

Bonus

• Analysis of the category emphasis of individual publications (eg Guardian, BBC, Telegraph, Daily Mail)
• User can click button to translate news into 'talk like a pirate'
• Geo-location using IP to localise news headlines

Methodology

MVP

• Use more than one API
• Responsive design
• TDD (Look into stubbing/mocking functions to help test API requests)
• Dynamic content
• No API keys pushed to github
• Minimise DOM manipulation (expensive!)
• DRY code (refactor to function calls)
• Everyone on the team must write at least one test

Bonus

• Mobile first
• Nice design (CSS)
• Use local storage or session storage