Vote App

Free Code Camp Challenge

HEROKU APP - https://neckers-voteapp.herokuapp.com

This app was built in MERN stack. It uses: MongoDB, Node, Express, React, React Router, Redux, Socket.IO, Material-UI and Google Charts. The UI can be used on mobile, tablet and desktop.

Note:

• Server and client components are isomorphic.
• Authentication doesn't use cookie but a mix in client ( in localStorage/Redux store ) and server, by Socket.IO, check.
• Already voted polls are saved in localStorage

User Stories

• As an authenticated user, I can keep my polls and come back later to access them.
• As an authenticated user, I can share my polls with my friends.
• As an authenticated user, I can see the aggregate results of my polls.
• As an authenticated user, I can delete polls that I decide I don't want anymore.
• As an authenticated user, I can create a poll with any number of possible items.
• As an unauthenticated or authenticated user, I can see and vote on everyone's polls.
• As an unauthenticated or authenticated user, I can see the results of polls in chart form. (This could be implemented using Chart.js or Google Charts.)
• As an authenticated user, if I don't like the options on a poll, I can create a new option.

It's a bug? No, it's a feature!

Ok, they aren't really features, but there are some actions not really good but ,for this challenge, I don't mind.

• I can vote multiple times if I clear my local storage or I do an access from another device ( or I go in incognito mode, etc.. ).
• Yeah, because to get track of the votes I have to save some informations in server side and, with users without login, I've to do a really hard work to check them. So.. the DB is in a sandbox powered by mlab and I don't want to stress it more.
• I can't edit or remove options after the poll publish.
• No, you can't. These actions weren't in the user stories.
• I can't have multiple logins.
  • Yep, everytime you do a login you get a different session_id in both side: client and server.
• I can't edit my personal data, like e-mail, nick or password
  • No, you can't. These actions weren't in the user stories.
• I can't change my preferences
  • Yes, I don't like this feature in special way but I've decided to not implement an UNDO action for some security reasons.

process.env

• MONGOURI: your query to authenticate in mongodb server mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds119508.mlab.com:19508/neckersbox
• NODE_ENV: for example production. Note: this must be the same between server and client.

Scripts

To compile or run this app use gulp and/or npm.

• Build: gulp build
• Watch: gulp watch or npm run watch
• Clean: gulp clean
• Start Server: gulp start or npm run start-server Note: normally start-server hide console messages, to show them you should exec npm run start-server-debug

MongoDB configuration

To properly works this application need a MongoDB database with two collections:

• vote_users To save signed users
• vote_polls To save users polls