PollPrinceton

About

A social polling app written by Ryan O'Shea, Tess Marchant, and Henry Lu for a semester project in COS 333 at Princeton.

While the site was taken down around a year after launch, you can still see what it looked like and how it worked.

Technology Colophon, Credits, Details

You can read about who we are, the stack we deployed, and who we have to thank in /frontend/humans.txt.

How To Deploy

• Get an Apache server running (I used XAMPP on Windows) to actually serve the app.
• Create a symlink between the Apache htdocs or www folder and the /frontend directory in this repository. For example, if your symlink is at htdocs/pp, browsing to http://localhost/pp will serve up the app. You may have to configure Apache to follow symlinks.
• Edit Apache's httpd.conf by adding ProxyPass /ppapi/ http://localhost:3000/ to the end and making sure the mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http modules are turned on. This redirects API requests to http://localhost/ppapi to port 3000, where our node.js backend runs.
• Install node.js, cd into the /backend/node directory.
• Install the necessary node packages via npm install express mongoose body-parser multer async fs
  • If you're on Ubuntu, you might need to follow the instructions here to get mongoose working.
• Install MongoDB and run it on the default port.
• Run node server.js to get the backend up and running.