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Open-source tools for your newsroom. Take a look through all our repos, read about our best practices, and learn how to setup your Mac to develop like we do.
Before you rush off to explore all the repos (there are more than a few), check out these projects on the Tools You Can Use page:
App Template – An opinionated template that gets the first 90% of building a static website out of the way. It integrates with Google Spreadsheets, Bootstrap and Github seamlessly.
- How to Setup the NPR App Template for You and Your News Org
- How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing
- Everything our app template does: July 2014 edition
- Switching to OAuth in the App Template
Copytext – A Python library for accessing a spreadsheet as a native object suitable for templating.
- Introducing copytext.py: your words are data too
- How We Built Borderland Out Of A Spreadsheet
- Baking Chart Data Into Your Page
- Managing Instagram Photo Call-Outs
Dailygraphics – A framework for creating and deploying responsive graphics suitable for publishing inside a CMS with pym.js. It includes d3.js templates for many different types of charts.
- Creating And Deploying Small-Scale Projects
- All About The Dailygraphics Rig From NPR
- What’s new in our first release version of the dailygraphics rig?
- Better, faster, more: recent improvements to our dailygraphics rig
- Let’s Tesselate: Hexagons For Tile Grid Maps
- Baking Chart Data Into Your Page
Elex – A command-line tool to get election results from the Associated Press Election API v2.0. Elex is designed to be friendly, fast and agnostic to your language/database choices.
Lunchbox – A suite of tools to create images for social media sharing.
Mapturner – A command line utility for generating topojson from various data sources for fast maps.
Newscast.js – A library to radically simplify Chromecast web app development.
Pym.js – A JavaScript library for responsive iframes.
More tools to consider for your newsroom or other information delivery center.