Polla

Polla is an online polling aiming to be a simple self-hosted alternative to strawpoll.com.

• Set polls as open or closed
• Set polls as public or private
• IP Address or Browser session vote duplication detection
• Allow anonymous or authenticated poll creation and responses
• User profiles

You will need to set up Redis and PostgreSQL. For ease of deployment, I recommend using Docker to deploy.

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/jeffvli/Polla.git

Go to the project directory. Add .env files as necessary from the environment variables.

  cd ./Polla/client

Install dependencies

  yarn install

Start the server

  yarn start

Go to the project directory

  cd ./Polla/server

Install dependencies

  yarn install

Start the server

  yarn dev

You can run this project with Docker Compose.

Go to the root project directory

cd ./Polla

Build the images

docker compose --env-file ./.env build

Start the project

docker compose --env-file ./.env up

Go to the root project directory

cd ./Polla

Build the images

docker compose --env-file ./.env.prod --file ./docker-compose-prod.yml build

Start the project

docker compose --env-file ./.env.prod --file ./docker-compose-prod.yml up

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

REACT_APP_BASE_URL http://localhost:3000

REACT_APP_API_BASE_URL http://localhost:5000

REACT_APP_GITHUB_URL https://github.com/jeffvli/Polla -- deprecated

DATABASE_URL postgresql://${POSTGRES_USER}:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}@http://localhost:5432/${POSTGRES_DB}?schema=public

APP_BASE_URL http://localhost:3000

JWT_SECRET InsertSecret!

JWT_SECRET_EXPIRATION 5m

JWT_REFRESH_SECRET InsertSecret!

JWT_REFRESH_SECRET_EXPIRATION 30d

REDIS_HOST http://localhost

REDIS_PORT 6379

If using docker, reference the env-example file to create your .env file