📊 Pollapp

Distinctiveness and Complexity:

What’s contained in each file:

- views.py: all the backend logic behind rendering templates

- urls.py: all the paths on the website

- serializers.py: converting database results to json responce

- models.py: is where all the sql django models are

- templates folder : there are all the html files that Pollapp uses

- static folder : there are all the .js and .css and images files that are use within Pollapp

- Rest of the files are just basic, unchanged django files that are create while starting django project

How to run Pollapp on your device

1. Clone Pollapp github repository

2. Run docker docker build . -t pollapp:latest

3. Next run docker run -p 8000:8000 pollapp:latest

4. Open your browser and go to "localhost:8000" and you sould be able to use Pollapp

There is already one superuser created, you can use it if you want - Username: cs50 Password: cs50

Tools used while creating Pollapp

- Python | Used as backend programming language

- Django | Python based framework I used to create backend for Pollapp

- Django REST framework | Used to create Pollapp API's

- Javascript | Used to create frontend features

- Charts.js | Used to create pie charts of number of votes each option had in poll

- HTML | Standard markup language for Web pages

- CSS | Used to style HTML

- Bulma | Used to make frontend design look good

- Fontawesome | Used to get access to many icons

How to use Pollapp

1. Create new account by clicking Register button (you can also login with already created superuser profile)

2. Go to "Polls" and click on "Create" button in order to create new poll

3. You can enter Question, Ansewrs (minimum 2 and maximum 10) and specify if you want your poll to be public or not (public- users will be able to see it on "polls" page, private - only users with link will be able to see it)

4. Send poll link to your friends to vote and like (they need to be logged in to vote and like)

5. If you dont want your poll to be active you can deactivate it by clicking in "Deactivate" button

6. By clicking on "Profile' you can see your Active, Liked and Deactivated polls

How to use Pollapp API's

1. Go to "/api/all" for information about all public and active polls on Pollapp

1. Go to "/api/poll/{url code}" for information about specific poll. You can also access private and disactivated polls if you have their url codes

You can find url codes after "/poll/" while visiting poll page.

Example: when you visit "/poll/foo" your url code is "foo"

You can use Pollapp API's even if you are not logged in