# Building a News App with Replit Agent: A Step-by-Step Guide

DevFeed: [Building a News App with Replit Agent: A Step-by-Step Guide](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-a-news-app-with-replit-agent-a-step-by-step-guide-5091.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/building-a-news-app-with-replit-agent-a-step-by-step-guide>)

Author: Mervin Praison

Published: 2024-09-17T14:51:22Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Repl.it](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replit.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Next.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/next-js.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [integrations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integrations.md>), [next-js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/next-js.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>)

## AI overview

A step-by-step tutorial for using Replit Agent to build and deploy a news app. The app scrapes Hacker News, stores results in a Postgres database powered by Neon, and renders the front end with Next.js. The article also describes Replit Agent's AI-assisted planning, coding, debugging, integrations, and deployment capabilities.

## Source excerpt

Replit released Replit Agent, an AI Software Engineer that helps build full-stack apps. Replit Agent includes a planner, a code editor, integrations to third-party APIs such as Discord and Stripe, and the ability to create and deploy Postgres databases powered by Neon. In this tu...