News Fight is a full stack web application that utilizes the python Vader Sentiment package to analyze top news stories, from any two major news outlets, for a desired topic. It provides individual analysis scores for stories and an overall average for all stories returned.
- News Api - The API utilized for all Source and News Story data
- Flask - Backend Framework, formatting external API data, Templating
- Postgres - Database used for source management, cutting down any unneeded API calls
- Bootstrap - Highly customized bootstrap theme for the frontend, primarily for responsiveness
- Javascript - The primary driver of the app, used for ajax calls to the flask backend and dynamic HTML generation
- jQuery - for DOM manipulation
- Hunter Van Lear