Development of an E-News System at Jawa Pos Radar Tulungagung based on Client-Server using the Flutter and Laravel frameworks

Abstract

This study develops a client-server-based e-news system for Jawa Pos Radar Tulungagung using Flutter technology as the user interface and Laravel as the backend. This system adopts a client-server architecture that communicates via REST APIs, offering high flexibility and scalability. The developed mobile application runs smoothly on various Android devices with main features such as responsive and easy-to-use news displays, comments, messages, searches, and profile management. The admin website is also redesigned with a modern look and news, user, and advertising management functions that are tailored to needs. The development method used is Extreme Programming (XP), which has proven effective through short iterations with active user involvement to produce an adaptive and appropriate system. The results of this development show that the e-news system is able to meet user needs well, provide easy access to interactive and responsive digital news, and support the media digitalization process at Jawa Pos Radar Tulungagung.