World Monitor local setup: build your own global news and situational awareness dashboard

koala73/worldmonitor is a real-time global intelligence dashboard for aggregating news, geopolitical events, infrastructure status, and different topic channels. It is closer to a situational awareness page and works well as a self-hosted news monitoring entry point.

Project repository:

https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor

Official site:

https://worldmonitor.app

Start Locally

The README quick-start commands are:

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git clone https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor.git
cd worldmonitor
npm install
npm run dev

After startup, check whether the default page works before thinking about deployment.

Running Different Channels

The project includes several channel-specific development commands:

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npm run dev:tech       # tech.worldmonitor.app
npm run dev:finance    # finance.worldmonitor.app
npm run dev:commodity  # commodity.worldmonitor.app
npm run dev:happy      # happy.worldmonitor.app
npm run dev:energy     # energy.worldmonitor.app

If you only care about technology news, start with dev:tech. If you care about finance or commodities, try dev:finance and dev:commodity.

Build and Checks

Before committing or deploying, it is worth running:

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npm run typecheck
npm run build:full

These commands can catch TypeScript type issues and production build problems early.

How to Use It

World Monitor fits these uses:

1. Build a real-time news entry point for yourself.
2. Create topic dashboards for a team, such as technology, energy, finance, or commodities.
3. Observe multi-source news streams instead of relying on recommendations from a single platform.
4. Extend it into an internal intelligence dashboard.

Deployment Suggestions

The README mentions a self-hosting guide, and deployment options include Vercel, Docker, and static deployment. Run it locally first, then deploy to Vercel or your own server.

When using it, remember that a news aggregation dashboard only helps you notice signals faster. It does not mean every piece of information has been verified. For finance, geopolitics, and security topics, it is best to open the original sources and cross-check them.