Polibugs

Polibugs is a nonpartisan tool to provide balanced viewpoints on the news.

made at CodeDay Bay Area Winter 2018

winner of Best in Class Application (1st Place) out of nearly 100 participants and over 25 teams

website live at https://polibugs.com/

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About

Front-end

• Polibugs is deployed and distributed using Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2)
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk is used to deploy the Docker container onto load balanced instances
  • the site is distributed over HTTPS using a CloudFlare trusted SSL certificate
• Polibugs uses the Bootstrap front-end framework

Back-end

• Polibugs does link processing server-side
• Balanced articles are lazy-loaded client side
• Uses News API to get the latest articles