Tag archives: News aggregator

In the previous post, I have been using backbone.js to retrieve news provided by newsinapp.io. Now, I need to display them in an unique HTML page. By unique page, I mean that all user interactivities will be only in one HTML page, and backend server will provide only data and no HTML tags.

How will be the GUI of this application ? First, a list will display each latest news. When a news is selected, the content detail will be displayed on the side. In addition, an image or video will be shown if it is available.

NewsItemView or ...

Nowadays many websites display twitter widgets with good or bad moods of their authors. I told myself that it was not bad at all, but I think better things could be done.

And this morning, I was standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the sink, and when I came to I had a revelation! A vision! A picture in my head! A picture of this! This is what makes time travel possible: the flux capacitor! This is what displays news on subjects I am interested in ...

In this post and the following, we will build a news aggregator in an unique page using backbone.js. By unique page, I mean that all user interactivities will be only in one HTML page, and backend server will provide only data and no HTML tags. Finally, fed by news, this application will use an API RESTful, http://newsinapp.io

backbone.js is a MVC framework in Javascript. A new quirk? A plaything for skilled developers? A fancy of a few gurus in javascript? I’m probably not the only person who thinks it. So I decided to look at ...