Voting App

VOTOGO is a voting app which allows users to create, share and view the results of surveys, and vote on other people’s topics.

Useful Links

• Github: https://github.com/ARWL2016/voting-app
• Website: https://votogo.herokuapp.com/home

Tech

• Angular 4.0
• Typescript 2.2
• Bootstrap 3.3.7
• Node 8.9.1
• Express 4.15.3
• MongoDB 2.2.27
• Mongoose 4.13.8
• Authentication: bcryptjs, jsonwebtoken
• Chart: chart.js and ng-charts
• Deployment: Heroku and Mlab (MongoDB cloud host)
• Tested on Chrome 63, Edge, IE11, Opera

Features

• Single Page Application
• user authentication
• responsive design
• toastr notifications
• angular animations
• data display with doughnut chart

Handlebars security issue

• delete node modules
• npm i @angular/cli@1.5.3
• delete package-lock.json
• npm i

Run in dev mode

• npm run build:watch - compile Angular app with webpack
• npm run server - run node backend
• OR npm run dev - runs previous two commands in parallel processes
• nb: no local database needed; dev environment connects to mlab

Deployment

• run a production build
• push to github and heroku

To do

• Figure out why CSP headers are failing in prod

Enhancements

• add a loader
• add active class to nav links
• Make sure the error messaging is appropriate for all of the forms
• add better validation to the username field
• debounce the search box
• add tests
• add logger

Possible Features

• add a recent button and a most popular button to the home page (this will mean changing the data structure
• add paging
• username availability check