TinyLottery

A simple lottery application for Meetup.com.

How to use

Meetup.com is a popular website to organize local community events. Sometimes it would be fun if there is a lucky draw for attendees at the end of the meetup. So I developed this tool to set a lucky draw.

Installing Node.js and Angular CLI

It is supposed that you have Node.js and Angular CLI installed on your laptop. For more information about Angular, please visit https://angular.io, or open this link.

Install Node.js from https://nodejs.org/en/. After installing Node.js, you can use npm to install Angular CLI by running this command:

npm install -g @angular/cli

Getting attendees data

First, get the attendees' data from meetup.com. Download the attendees' data as an Excel file. Copy the name column and use ChatGPT to generate a JSON file like this:

{
  "data": [
    { "name": "User 1" },
    { "name": "User 2" },
    { "name": "User 3" }
    ]
}

Copy the content and save it as a JSON file called attendees.json in the assets folder.

Clone and build the project on your laptop

Clone the project and navigate to the tiny-lottery folder. Run the following command to install the packages:

npm install --force

Then use the command below to run it:

ng serve --open

That's it!

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