Mongo Scrapper

Utilizing a series of front-end and backend technologies to create a web app that lets users view and leave comments on the latest articles from "Politico"
  • Date
  • May 5, 2019
  • Industry
  • Politics, Commentary
  • Services
  • Design, Art Direction, Website
  • Programmer
  • John Harlepas
  • About Project
  • The client hosted a website for fans of the news website "Politico". The client came to JDH with the desire to create a method for fans to view and comment on newly published articles. In response, JDH designed and coded a a web app that lets users view and leave comments on the latest news by scraping news from the site.
  • Tech Brief
  • The major challenge faced in this project was having to adhere to a specific set of technologies. In response, JDH delivered an application that runs in the browser, features dynamically updated HTML and CSS, is powered by JavaScript code, Mongoose, Cheerios, and utilizes the MongoDb database.
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Play attention to the how JDH utilzes the central feature: deploying project to Heroku by using mLab provision; a remote MongoDB database that Heroku supports natively.
Incorporated Technologies

At JDH, we listen to our clients and try to build applications that meet their exact requirements. This client asked that the application adhere to the technologies that existed in their website. This meant building an application that utlized Express, MongoDb, Javascript, Heroku, HTML & CSS. The percentages reflect how much of the development time was alotted to a particular technology.

Express

Javascript

Heroku

HTML & CSS

MongoDb