Wrote news publisher panel

client/components/pages/admin.jsx

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ const Admin = props => {
 	return (
 		<div className='page'>
 			<h1 className='centered'>Administration</h1>
-			<NewsPublisher />
+			<NewsPublisher uri={process.env.NEWS_URI} newsKey={process.env.NEWS_KEY} />
 		</div>
 	);
 };

client/components/pages/homepage.jsx

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const HomePage = props => {
 	return (
 		<div className='page'>
 			<p>This is the MERN template homepage.</p>
-			<NewsFeed uri='http://dev-news.eggtrainer.com:3100/news' />
+			<NewsFeed uri={process.env.NEWS_URI} />
 		</div>
 	);
 };

client/components/panels/news-publisher.jsx

@@ -1,5 +1,68 @@
+import React from 'react';
+
 const NewsPublisher = props => {
-	return null;
+	let titleElement, authorElement, bodyElement;
+
+	return (
+		<div>
+			<h2 className='centered'>News Publisher</h2>
+			<form onSubmit={async e => {
+				e.preventDefault();
+				await handleSubmit(titleElement.value, authorElement.value, bodyElement.value, props.uri, props.newsKey);
+				titleElement.value = authorElement.value = bodyElement.value = '';
+			}}>
+				<div>
+					<label htmlFor='title'>Title: </label>
+					<input type='text' name='title' ref={ e => titleElement = e } />
+				</div>
+
+				<div>
+					<label htmlFor='author'>Author: </label>
+					<input type='text' name='author' ref={ e => authorElement = e } />
+				</div>
+
+				<div>
+					<label htmlFor='body'>Body: </label>
+					<textarea name='body' rows='10' cols='150' ref={ e => bodyElement = e } />
+				</div>
+
+				<button type='submit'>Publish</button>
+			</form>
+		</div>
+	);
+};
+
+const handleSubmit = async (title, author, body, uri, newsKey) => {
+	title = title.trim();
+	author = author.trim();
+	body = body.trim();
+	uri = uri.trim();
+	newsKey = newsKey.trim();
+
+	//fetch POST json data
+	const raw = await fetch(
+		uri,
+		{
+			method: 'POST',
+			headers: {
+				'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+				'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*'
+			},
+			body: JSON.stringify({ title: title, author: author, body: body, key: newsKey })
+		}
+	);
+
+	if (raw.ok) {
+		const result = await raw.json();
+
+		if (result.ok) {
+			alert(`Published article index ${result.index}`);
+		} else {
+			alert(result.error);
+		}
+	} else {
+		alert(raw.statusText);
+	}
 };
 
 export default NewsPublisher;

webpack.config.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 //plugins
+const { DefinePlugin } = require('webpack');
 const { CleanWebpackPlugin } = require('clean-webpack-plugin');
 const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
 const { BundleAnalyzerPlugin } = require('webpack-bundle-analyzer');
@@ -39,11 +40,17 @@ module.exports = ({ production, analyzer }) => {
 			]
 		},
 		plugins: [
+			new DefinePlugin({
+				'process.env': {
+					'NEWS_URI': '"http://dev-news.eggtrainer.com:3100/news"',
+					'NEWS_KEY': '"key"',
+				}
+			}),
 			new CleanWebpackPlugin({
 				cleanOnceBeforeBuildPatterns: ['*', '!content*']
 			}),
 			new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
-				template: "./client/template.html",
+				template: './client/template.html',
 				minify: {
 					collapseWhitespace: production,
 					removeComments: production,