# evaluate-news-article # Evaluate A News Article with Natural Language Processing 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](https://www.meaningcloud.com/products/sentiment-analysis), 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 ``` 2. Clone the repo ``` git clone ``` 3. Install npm ``` npm install ``` 4. Install loaders and plugins ``` # Choose the necessary installation for your development mode npm i -D @babel/core @babel/preset-env babel-loader npm i -D style-loader node-sass css-loader sass-loader npm i -D clean-webpack-plugin npm i -D html-webpack-plugin npm i -D mini-css-extract-plugin npm i -D optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin terser-webpack-plugin ``` 5. Sign up for an API key at [meaningcloud.com](https://www.meaningcloud.com/developer/create-account) 6. Configure environment variables using dotenv package 1. Install the dotenv package ``` npm install dotenv ``` 2. Create a new `.env` file in the root of your project 3. Fill the `.env` file with your API key like this: ``` API_KEY=************************** ``` 7. Start the project Command | Action :------------: | :-------------: ### 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 8082` **Note:** The web page can be accessed with `localhost:8082` # evaluate-news-article