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Just the news. No overwhelming ads or colors.

Simple headline-based feed for getting your news.

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Shipped this project!

Hours: 2.81
Cookies: 🍪 20
Multiplier: 7.01 cookies/hr

had fun making it

learnt how to use rest apis better and make my own

also learnt how to make a ui that actually looks good :-)

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Further refinement.

New share icon which fits in better with the app, custom 404 page, custom error page, permanent favicon replacing the old temporary one.

Also, now instead of a refresh button you now browse through headlines with a back and forward error, so if you accidentally skip an interesting story you can get back to it.

I also added a bug report button to the settings menu which opens a GitHub issue with the bug report template.

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General polish.
Improved visibility on the text of pills. I also remove the shields from bottom left and just put them in the README on GH

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Added these things called Pills for selecting categories of news headlines. Dont worry, I made them disable-able with the new settings menu. Additionally I added opt-in Google Analytics and a consent banner for EU/GDPR compliance. I also added 4 more endpoints to the API, and the API is now used in between the frontend app and newsapi.org, for some reason. I also wrote a cookie policy, which is available on the GitHub repo and there is a link to it on the consent banner. Lastly, I added text to the share button so people know they are sharing the headline and not the jtn website.

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Added alot of things.

  • Share button which simply copies the Headline and source and allows the user to quickly post on other platforms
  • Added dark mode
  • Refresh button built in to get new headline

I also “fixed” a pesky hydration error caused by dark theme (i just suppressed it)

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currently the main frontend for viewing headlines is working, so i set up a small API for getting news headlines. it is free to use (hopefully forever unless my newsapi account gets restricted and i plan to add more endpoints soon

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