Aggregate news from different feeds related to Muslims.
Work on this app is still under planning, I am sharing ideas publicly so all can coopoerate.
Gathering news about the Muslims, so that we can easly apply the guidance of the Prophet peace and blessings upon him: one who does not give importance to Muslims' affairs is not from them.
Aims:
- Instill love and care for Muslims all around the world
- Make sure no one region is favored; have 3 pieces of news from each region no more (or some other number)
- Leave a warning to think critically even for news aggregated on this site
- I18n of this site is difficult for this directly… but English is good to start, Arabic if we find a source for news. Other languages are too regional I think.
- Show an image from unsplash, without people, taken in a muslim country
We can later expand the feature of this site to include small intros for each country, matching the mission of erasing ignorance about fellow Muslims
Plan
- Find API
- The NYT supports location, but linking to them is a dead end because paywall
- Most other services are expensive and targeting a different kind of customer (though we could use their free plans, and just cache what they respond with once a day… but that needs a backend! Or maybe a microservice writing to a NoSQL database… but that's beyond me right now)
- Just fetch RSS: https://css-tricks.com/how-to-fetch-and-parse-rss-feeds-in-javascript/. Can easily filter by location as well! For an MVP, this is the way
- MVP for personal use
- Make list of Muslim countries, or countries with significant amount of Muslims, to filter with
- Just get the API working: Filtering for yesterday/today, muslim places (by country name, or tag), by section (to exclude movies/tv and other undesirable things)
- Try SvelteKit
- Design like a newspaper, a brown background and headlines
- Share