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News Feed

This is a project that helps beginners get started with Dart and Flutter by building a simple News Feed application. This project is unique in that it shows you can you can make HTTP requests to a Django backend server that's running locally on your machine. This can be helpful to those who want to know how to develop a backend server and can have everything running on their local machine instead of using services like firebase in order to develop a mobile application.

In order to test out this project, follow these steps:

clone the repository
clone the simple server which can be found under https://github.com/linkedweb/simple-server
setup either an android or ios emulator on your local machine
if using android, set the primary domain in the HTTP requests in lib → src → app.dart, and in lib → src → widgets → posts.dart to the following: http://10.0.2.2:8000
if using ios, set the primary domain in the HTTP requests in lib → src → app.dart, and in lib → src → widgets → posts.dart to the following: http://localhost:8000
navigate into the newsfeed project folder you cloned and run the following to install packages: flutter pub get
run the mobile app with the following command: flutter run
navigate into your simple-server and run it, you can follow the steps shown in that repository in order to run it on your local machine

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