NC News is a platform for all things Northcoders related. It allows users to browse, sort and read articles, then comment or vote on them live.

Front end application is hosted live on Netlify: https://hayeskg-nc-news.netlify.app/

Back end server is hosted live on: https://nc-news-hayeskg.herokuapp.com/

• The front-end is built using ReactJS (https://reactjs.org/), a library for building user interfaces.
• Reach is used for front-end routing (https://reach.tech/router).
• Axios takes care of the promise-based HTTP requests to the back-end (https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios).
• Some styled components are used as part of the overall visual design (https://styled-components.com/).

The back-end for this application can be found here, with more detailed information: https://github.com/hayeskg/backend_nc_news.

It's an Express server built on NodeJS and PostgreSQL with a list of available API endpoints. It is hosted live on Heroku: https://nc-news-hayeskg.herokuapp.com/.

To run the NC News application on a local development machine, clone or fork the project from: https://github.com/hayeskg/nc-news.

ReactJS requires NodeJS to be installed locally, to download (minimum v13.13.0 required):

• NodeJS: https://nodejs.org/en/download/

After download, navigate to the directory and run the command:

npm i -D

This will install developer dependencies as outlined in the package.json file.

Once the dependencies are installed, only the following command will be needed:

npm start

This will start the server which will run locally on PORT 3000 - use client, like a browser to interact with the application.

Kristof Hayes - Northcoders