Hello! 👋 👋 👋 Please reach out to me with any questions you might have about this code.
In order to run this code, please make sure you have node installed.
In order to install node, you can run brew install node or install it using your preferred package manager.
Once you have installed node, you can clone into this repository by running git clone <ssh/https link> in your terminal.
When you have cloned into the repo, navigate to the csv-input-output directory.
In your terminal, run: node index.js.
You will see two output files: republicans-social.csv and democrats-age.csv.
My goal was to read the legislators.csv input and create the two output csvs using one line of code. This is why I elected to use node.
I used several packages:
- csv-parser: https://www.npmjs.com/package/csv-parser, used to read the
legislator.csvfile. - csv-writer: https://www.npmjs.com/package/csv-writer, used to write my filtered results to the output csv files.
- moment: https://www.npmjs.com/package/moment, used to work with dates so I could accurately filter by age.
Two limitations I am identifying:
- The headers for the output CSVs are currently hard-coded, which is something I would eventually like to change.
- The filter for Democrats under age 45 is hard-coded to be anyone born between November 16, 1974 and November 15, 2019. I would eventually like to change this to update as time goes on based on the current date.