Votaholic

Votaholic allows you connect with your audience by allowing users create polls and users can vote on polls.

Votaholic is a FreeCodeCamp Project.

Feature List

• Create as many polls as you like.
• Vote on polls (user can only vote once per poll; based on user IP address).
• Displays all polls on the app.
• View details of a poll.
• View all the polls you have created.
• Authenticated user can create a custom option on a poll
• Signup, Login and Logout of the app.

Getting Started

Votaholic is hosted on heroku and can be accessed here:

• Production

Prerequisites

These are what you need installed on your computer to use the application:

• Web Browser (Chrome, or Mozilla, or Safari, or Opera, or Microsoft Edge )

For Developerss:

• Git
• Node.js
• MongoDb
• Yarn

Setup

Local Copy

To create a local copy, run the following in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/ajibs/votaholic.git

Then change into the local directory, run the following in your terminal:

cd votaholic

Install Node.js and Yarn

If you don't have Node.js installed, please go ahead and grab it here.

Yarn is a package manager for Node.js and can be installed from here.

To confirm that you have Node.js installed, run the following in your terminal:

node -v

You should get something like v8.9.1.

To confirm that you have Yarn installed, run the following in your terminal:

yarn -v

You should get something like 1.3.2.

Setup Database and .env file

You can setup a database on mlab. You should also create a .env file using .env.sample as a prototype.

Install Node.js Modules

To install all dependencies, run the following in your terminal:

yarn

Development

To kickstart the application, run the following in your terminal:

node server.js

Built With

• Git - Version Control
• Node.js - JS Runtime Environment
• Yarn - Package Manager
• Express - Web Framework
• EJS - Templating Engine
• mLab - Database
• Heroku - Hosting and Continuous Deployment
• VS Code - Code Editor
• Chrome - Browser

Author

• Bolu Ajibawo

Acknowledgments

• FreeCodeCamp
• Chingu
• Red Pandas
• Developer Community
• Family
• Friends