Voting

Application: VoTeam

Developer: Hou Shizheng, Zheng Ying

Time: Sep. 2021 to Nov. 2021

1. Introduction

1.1 Project Structure

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├── README.md
├── package-lock.json
├── Voting.postman_collection.json
├── client					# client handler folder
		├── package.json
		├── node_modules	# folder for dependency modules in server-side
		├── public
		└── src             # folder for all react components
└── server					# server handle folder
		├── package.json
		├── node_modules	# folder for dependency modules in client-side
		├── app.js			# main driver
        ├── config			# configration info
        ├── controller		# Controllers
        ├── middleware		# middlewares for authorization error-handler
        ├── model			# models
        ├── router			# routers for different apis
        ├── util			# jwt and md5
		└── validator 		# validators

1.2 Brief

This project is a Kanban like web application.

MERN stack is used here to develop full-stack web application. Namely, the Express framework based on NodeJS is used to realize back end, MongoDB is used as our database and the ReactJS is used to realize front end.

The backend server is running on port 6001, the backend database is running on port 27017 and the frontend client is running on port 3000.

2. Prerequisites

It is possible for you to run ./server in Docker and ./client on local to simulate two machine.

Of course you can also deploy backend server-side code on remote server.

2.1 Server

① Setup env

Pull docker image

docker pull ubuntu: latest

Create a new container

docker run -p 6001:6001 -p 27017 -it --name voting ubuntu

Install git

apt update
apt upgrade
apt install git

Install npm

apt install curl
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash
# restart container to enable nvm & check nvm using command 'nvm'
nvm install 10
npm install -g npm@6

Install mongoDB

apt install gnupg
curl -fsSL https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.4.asc | apt-key add -
echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu bionic/mongodb-org/4.4 multiverse" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.4.list 
apt update
apt install mongodb-org
apt install screen
mkdir -p /data/db
screen mongod 
# Press Ctrl+a followed by d to return to terminal
# Use command 'mongo' to open a mongoDB CLI

② Get source code

git is needed

GitHub repo: https://github.com/HOU-SZ/voting.git

git clone https://github.com/HOU-SZ/voting.git

③ Install dependencies

npm is needed

cd voting/server
npm install

2.2 Client

① Setup env

Install git
Install npm

② Get source code

git is needed

GitHub repo: https://github.com/HOU-SZ/voting.git

git clone https://github.com/HOU-SZ/voting.git

③ Install dependencies

npm is needed

cd voting/client
npm install
npm install typescript

3. Get Started

3.1 Server

cd voting/server
screen mongod
node app.js

3.2 Client

cd voting/client
npm start

Access http://localhost:3000/ in your browser

4. Usage

Click Register to register an account
Click Login to log in your account
Click Dashboard to create your topic, then you can explore to use all the functions
Click Voteam logo or Home to return to the homepage
Click Logout to log out your account

Notice: when you Drag and Drop the idea card, you may see the below error:

NotFoundError: Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node': The node to be removed is not a child of this node.

Do not have to care about it. This error is caused by dragula library. It is visible only in development. It will not appear if the app crashes in production.