📰 Smart Reviewer — AI News Analyst

An intelligent news sentiment analysis platform that helps users understand the tone and key takeaways of the latest world events. Built with Next.js, OpenAI, and MongoDB Atlas.

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✨ Features

• 🔍 Intelligent Search: Real-time news discovery powered by the GNews API.
• 🤖 Deep AI Analysis: Goes beyond headlines—extracts full article content and generates neutral, 2-3 sentence summaries and sentiment scores using OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini.
• 📊 Sentiment Insights: Categorical sentiment identification (Positive, Neutral, Negative) with AI confidence scoring.
• 🏺 Analysis History: Persistent storage of analyzed articles in MongoDB Atlas for easy historical reference.
• 🎨 Premium UI/UX: An Anthropic-inspired, light-mode interface with elegant transitions, glassmorphic elements, and a mobile-optimized layout.
• ♿ Accessibility First: Fully accessible with ARIA-compliant tab systems, semantic HTML, and polished keyboard navigation.
• 🚀 Automated Infrastructure: Declarative infrastructure management with OpenTofu (IaC) and GitHub Actions CI/CD.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Framework: Next.js 15 (App Router)
• Styling: Tailwind CSS v4
• AI/LLM: OpenAI GPT-4o-mini
• Database: MongoDB Atlas
• Scraping: Mozilla Readability + JSDOM
• Infrastructure: OpenTofu (IaC)
• Deployment: Vercel

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+
• Vercel CLI
• Atlas CLI

2. Local Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/felkru/aries_interview.git
   cd aries_interview

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Environment Variables:

   Create a .env.local file in the root directory:

   MONGODB_URI=your_mongodb_uri
   OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_key
   GNEWS_KEY=your_gnews_key

4. Run the development server:

   npm run dev
   # or
   vercel dev

3. Infrastructure (OpenTofu)

The MongoDB Atlas cluster is managed via OpenTofu in the tofu/ directory. CI/CD for infra is automated via GitHub Actions in .github/workflows/tofu.yml.

To deploy manually or via CI, you'll need the following environment variables (or GitHub Secrets):

• ATLAS_ORG_ID
• ATLAS_PUBLIC_KEY
• ATLAS_PRIVATE_KEY
• DB_PASSWORD

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📖 Project Structure

• app/, components/, lib/, public/: The core Next.js web application.
• tofu/: OpenTofu configurations for MongoDB Atlas.
• docs/: Architecture diagrams and implementation details.
• work_log/: Chronological log of agent activity.
• assignment/: Original project requirements.

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📄 License

MIT © Felix Krueckel