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CiberCuba presents an innovative tool: a that allows users to explore over 100,000 articles published in the last 10 years by our media outlet. This archive marks a milestone in content accessibility on the CiberCuba website, offering an optimized and scalable search experience.
With this tool, CiberCuba not only modernizes access to information but also strengthens its commitment to society by facilitating historical analysis and informed decision-making.
Key features
- Intuitive navigation: Users can explore the archive by day, month, or year with a clear and simple interface.
- Quick search: The results are immediately accessible thanks to the optimized infrastructure.
- Free access: The entire database is open to the public at no additional cost.
- Historical coverage: Includes relevant news about politics, economy, culture, and other topics of interest since 2015.
For example, a researcher can select a specific year and, with just a few clicks, review key events related to the Cuban economy during that time.
Technical details
The project is built on a backend deployed on Cloudflare Workers, ensuring high scalability, immediate response times, and significantly low operational costs. Thanks to its globally distributed network, loading times are optimized to the maximum, additionally reducing the project's carbon footprint and aligning with sustainable practices.
The frontend uses Astro, a cutting-edge framework designed to maximize loading speed and web performance. Astro enables static content generation, delivering complete pages in a single request to the browser, without the need to load additional JavaScript unless absolutely necessary. This innovative architecture, known as "partial hydration", ensures that only the interactive parts of the page use JavaScript, while the rest remains static, reducing the page weight and speeding up loading times.
The choice of Astro was key to achieving an outstanding score of 99/100 in the Core Web Vitals, positioning this project as a leader in performance and user experience. Its ability to optimize metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and First Input Delay (FID), combined with its focus on sustainability, makes it an unparalleled solution in modern web development.
In summary, the combination of Cloudflare Workers for the backend and Astro for the frontend ensures a smooth and optimized experience, characterized by its technical performance, sustainability, and scalability.
Uses and benefits
- Researchers: They can easily analyze historical events and political or economic trends.
- Journalists: Quickly access archived news to provide context for their articles.
- Data Analysts: They use the file to identify patterns and behaviors in Cuban society.
- Citizens: Find relevant news about events of personal or community interest.
This tool not only improves accessibility to information but also fosters the creation of original content and critical analysis.
Project roadmap
The CiberCuba team has big plans for the future of the archive:
- Use of artificial intelligence: Implement algorithms that generate objective summaries for each day, providing users with a clear and concise overview of the most relevant events.
- Integration with the exchange rate API: Incorporate data from the API developed by CiberCuba, based on information from elTOQUE, to associate each day with the corresponding exchange rate and display graphs of its historical evolution.
- Creation of a widget: Develop an embeddable widget that allows other websites to insert daily news or news from a specific day, expanding the reach of the CiberCuba archive.
- Integration with external platforms: Establish connections with analytics tools and social networks to maximize the utility of the archive.
- Mobile application: Design an application for Android and iOS that allows easy and quick access to the archive, with features optimized for mobile devices.
- Custom Alerts: Incorporate notifications for important events, customizable according to user interests.
Technologies used
- Astro: Framework used for frontend development, providing speed and optimization for both static and dynamic content.
- Cloudflare Workers: Serverless infrastructure that allows the project to run in a scalable manner, with high availability and low cost.
- Hono: An ultra-lightweight framework for handling routes in the backend, used within Workers to process requests and serve data efficiently.
- Tailwind CSS: A tool for styling the project with a clean and modern design, optimizing development productivity.
- GitHub Actions: Continuous integration pipeline to securely and cost-effectively automate build and deploy processes.
- Wrangler: The official CLI tool from Cloudflare for quickly deploying and managing Workers.
- JSON APIs: APIs to feed the system with dynamic data, such as daily exchange rates and file content.
The news archive of CiberCuba redefines how informational content is accessed, democratizing information and providing powerful tools for research and analysis. With cutting-edge infrastructure and a focus on sustainability, this tool is designed to make a difference in its field.
Explore the CiberCuba archive today and take advantage of all the benefits of this innovative platform. .
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