# NewsAggregator

A news article aggregator using RSS feeds to extract articles from differing sources. These aggregated articles are displayed on a website for the user to see.

## In-depth

Articles will extracted from an RSS Feed (which is in a XML format) via a C# application, which will put each articke into standard CLR objects. These CLR objects will then be committed to a database for persistence even when the server is off. While the database is periodically updated, a web server will display articles from the database to the user in a nice format. 

This therefore provides a clear distinction between the frontend and the backend: 

* Aggregator of articles (purely backend)
* Database (purely backend)
* Web server (backend funnel to frontend)
* Web page (purely frontend)

## Languages and services used

* C# for the aggregator
* C#/Node.js for the web server
* MySQL for the database