News Dating

News Dating is a web application that aggregates RSS feeds from multiple providers, allowing users to subscribe to their favorite categories and easily access the latest articles. The project is designed to offer a personalized news experience, with support for different languages and providers.

Key Features

• Custom RSS Feed Integration: Users can subscribe to various categories, each linked to specific RSS feeds. Providers are stored in a relational database and can be dynamically queried based on user preferences.
• Bionic Reading: This app integrate the Bionic Reading algorithm to help you read more faster. It can be toggle ans is applied to all of the news contents.
• User Subscriptions: Each user can manage their own set of subscriptions, stored in a database and easily updatable from the UI. The application tracks their preferences and delivers content tailored to their interests.
• Optimized for Performance: The frontend uses SvelteKit, known for its fast performance and simple reactivity model. The application dynamically fetches and parses RSS feeds, displaying the results in a structured and visually appealing format using TailwindCSS for styling.
• Dynamic Content Parsing: RSS data is fetched from external sources, and since each provider may use different selectors, the project stores selector rules in a database and applies them as needed to extract titles, descriptions, and images.

Technical Details

• Frontend: Built with SvelteKit and TailwindCSS for a responsive, fast, and modern user interface.
• Backend: The backend is a Node.js server that acts as a proxy for fetching RSS feeds. It also communicates with a MySQL database to store provider selectors, user preferences, and categories.
• Database: The MySQL database schema includes tables for users, categories, user subscriptions, and provider selectors, which allow for flexible and dynamic querying.
• Transitions and Animations: Using Svelte’s built-in transitions, the UI is enhanced with smooth animations for category selection, filtering, and subscribing to news feeds.
• Modular Design: The project follows a component-based architecture, allowing for reusable, maintainable code, especially with complex components like the category selector.