Decision Maker

Project Details

Decision Maker is a full stack web application that was built for our midterm project at Lighthouse Labs in a collaborative environment. It allows a user to create a questionnaire that helps groups of friends to vote on a preferred choice (using Borda Count method). For example: "What is your favourite vegetable?".

This project was designed by Cindy Chen, Spencer Bethel and Kevin Ly.

• Front-end was built using Javascript, Bootstrap, jQuery, SASS and HTML.
• Back-end was built using Node.js, PostgreSQL, Express and EJS.
• Nodemailer API was our choice for easy email sending.

Getting Started

1. Create the .env by using .env.example as a reference: cp .env.example .env
2. Update the .env file with your correct local information

• username: labber
• password: labber
• database: midterm
• NM_USER: Your email address
• NM_PASS: Your email password

3. Install dependencies: npm i
4. Fix to binaries for sass: npm rebuild node-sass
5. Reset database: npm run db:reset

• Check the db folder to see what gets created and seeded in the SDB

7. Run the server: npm run local

• Note: nodemon is used, so you should not have to restart your server

8. Visit http://localhost:8080/

Final Product

Creating a poll

Copying the links

Submitting a poll

Checking the poll statistics

Mobile view

Dependencies

• Node 10.x or above
• NPM 5.x or above
• PG 6.x
• Express
• Morgan
• Chalk
• dotenv
• EJS
• NodeMailer
• SASS
• Sortablejs
• Nodemon