README.md

Politicmotion

An interactive news-search website that enables users to search news, compare reader emotions, and chat with people who cared about the similar topics

> Website Link: https://politicmotion.club

> Demo Account: dummy@e / Password: dummy

Table of Content

• Technologies
• Architecture
• Database Schema
• Main Features
• Author

Technologies

Back-End

• Node.js / Express.js
• RESTful API
• Linux
• NGINX
• Socket.IO
• Python Web Crawler
• Crontab

Front-End

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Bootstrap
• Axios

Cloud Service (AWS)

• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Relational Database Service (RDS)

Database

• MySQL

Networking

• HTTP
• HTTPS / SSL
• Domain Name System (DNS)

Others

• Google Natural Language API
• Design Pattern: MVC
• Version Control: Git, GitHub
• Agile: Trello (Srum)
• Test: Mocha / Chai

Architecture

Database Schema

Main Features

User Authentication & Authorization

• Register as new user
• Login as existing user

News Search & Select

• Search latest political news
• Select news according to natural language processing scores
• Receive recommended news according to TF-IDF & cosine similarity

News Display / User Emotion Analysis

• Read both selected & recommended news
• Receive user emotion score and compare with general FB audience

Chat Room / Chat Partner Recommendation

• Arrive chat room to meet people who care about the same topics
• Receive top-recommended chat partner who has the most similar emotion score as the user
• Change room to find friends with different interests

Author

• Name: Shelly Yang @shellyYG
• Email: [email protected]