Media & Content

Build a Digital News Portal & CMS with AI - in Hours

ProjectCode generates a complete, production-ready Digital News Portal & CMS from a single natural language prompt. In hours instead of months, you get a React frontend, NestJS REST API, PostgreSQL database, and authentication - fully integrated, live-previewed, and deployed to a URL you own.

Estimated build time: 2–4 hours

Free to start · No credit card required

The Challenge

Why building a News Portal from scratch is hard

Building a Digital News Portal & CMS from scratch requires months of development time and significant engineering resources. Teams struggle to coordinate frontend, backend, database, and authentication while managing news portal-specific business logic, integrations, and role-based access rules.

What's Included

Everything your News Portal needs

ProjectCode generates a production-ready News Portal with all the modules your team needs from day one.

Multi-category article publishing with rich text editor
Breaking news banner and push notifications
Journalist author profiles with byline tracking
SEO-optimized article pages with social sharing
Paywall and subscription management
Comment system with moderation and threaded replies
Live blog support for events and breaking news
Analytics: page views, read depth, subscriber conversion

Architecture

How it's built

The generated News Portal follows production-grade architecture patterns.

React 18 + TypeScript frontend with role-based dashboards tailored for news portal workflows

NestJS REST API with dedicated news portal modules, DTOs, validators, and service layer

PostgreSQL relational schema with normalized tables for all news portal entities

JWT + Google OAuth authentication with granular permission gates per role

Real-time Socket.IO events for live news portal status updates and notifications

Managed hosting with one-click deploy, custom domain, and auto-SSL

Database

PostgreSQL schema designed for News Portal

ProjectCode generates a normalized, indexed PostgreSQL schema with the right tables and relationships for your use case. You own the schema and can evolve it freely.

  • articles (id, headline, slug, body, summary, author_id, category_id, status, published_at, featured_image_url, views, read_time, is_paywalled, workspace_id)
  • authors (id, user_id, display_name, bio, avatar_url, article_count, subscriber_count)
  • categories (id, name, slug, description, parent_id, order_index)
  • subscriptions (id, user_id, plan, started_at, expires_at, stripe_subscription_id, status)
schema.sql (preview)
-- Generated by ProjectCode
-- Digital News Portal & CMS schema

CREATE TABLE articles__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

CREATE TABLE authors__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

CREATE TABLE categories__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

CREATE TABLE subscriptions__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

Tech Stack

Production-ready from day one

Every generated app uses a battle-tested stack you can deploy anywhere and own completely.

Frontend

React 18 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS

Backend

NestJS 10 + Node.js + TypeScript

Database

PostgreSQL (managed or Supabase)

Auth

Email OTP · Google OAuth · GitHub OAuth

Deployment

Managed hosting · Custom domain · Auto-SSL

AI Models

Claude Sonnet · Claude Opus · Kimi

Try It Now

Example prompt to get started

Copy this prompt into ProjectCode and get a working app in minutes.

ProjectCode prompt

Build a digital news portal for a media company publishing 50 articles per day across 12 categories (Politics, Business, Sports, Technology, etc.). Include a journalist-facing CMS with rich text editor, image embedding, and SEO meta editor, a reader-facing website with breaking news banner, category navigation, and related articles, article-level analytics (views, scroll depth, share count), a metered paywall (5 free articles/month, then subscription prompt), Stripe-based subscription plans (monthly/annual), live blog format for real-time event coverage, push notifications for breaking news, and a subscriber analytics dashboard.

Deployment

Deploy your News Portal anywhere

Managed hosting

One-click deploy to a live URL managed by ProjectCode.

Custom domain

Connect your own domain with auto-provisioned SSL via Cloudflare.

GitHub export

Push to your GitHub repo and self-host or deploy via Vercel, Railway, or AWS.

Docker ready

Export a Dockerfile and docker-compose for any containerized environment.

Pricing

Start free, scale as you grow

No per-seat fees. No vendor lock-in. Token-based pricing that scales with your usage.

Free

$0

Start building your first app. Live preview, managed hosting, and full code export included.

Token Packs

From $5

Purchase token packs that roll over every month. Build more, pay only for what you use.

Enterprise

Custom

Custom models, SLA, SSO, and private cloud deployment for large teams.

See full pricing details

FAQ

Common questions about building a News Portal

The platform tracks article views per user (or by IP for anonymous visitors) in a 30-day rolling window. Once the free quota is exhausted, article body content is blurred after the first 3 paragraphs and a subscription prompt is shown. Logged-in subscribers bypass the paywall entirely.

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