newswriter | js front-end for managing front page news

newswriter is a JavaScript library. newswriter has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can install using 'npm i newswriter' or download it from GitHub, npm.

NewsWriter is a tool for maintaining front-page news and announcements. This might seem a trivial task: we have a standard for exchanging calendar data (RFC 5546), and another for publishing news (RFC 4287), and plenty of kit that does a good job of reading and presenting both (from Android tablets to the iPad, from Google Calendar to the venerable MS Outlook, and on to the swelling gaggle of smartphone brands and versions). Consuming news and schedules is now simple enough at the user end, but production is, unfortunately, another matter -- and it should not be. In a university context, in particular, news feeds and machine-readable calendar objects are natural partners. Properly applied, they can bring activity in eclectic, separately managed projects into clear focus across the local community. There are surely corporate publishing platforms around that effectively integrate the two, but where territorial incentives dominate, and the start-line is a passel of static project websites composed with DreamWeaver and the like, that may not be an option. That is the case at my place of work, so I scratched the itch by writing this tool. I hope you find it useful. NewsWriter simplifies the deployment of integrated news and calendar information at both ends. Input is controlled through a simple one-page view into an SQLite database, with search-as-you-type input of reusable content, and widgets for quick entry of date details. Content is published as an integrated set of page, feed and calendar objects through a flexible template mechanism, and can be placed on the target website via rsync. The result can be viewed on the site of the Nagoya University Graduate School of Law, for which NewsWriter was originally built.