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Poller

Poller is MERN stack social media project to start your polls and also respond to some of others polls.

For Demo, please visit:

https://poller-e5529.web.app

Poller uses following tech tack and tools :

Frontend:

React
Redux
Redux Saga
React router

Backend

Node.js
Express
Sendgrid - For emails
Mongoose - MongoDB ORM
Morgan - Reqeust logging
socket.io - Notificatons
Firebase - file storage
MongoDB - Database

Deployment

Frontend - Firebase Hosting
Backend - Heroku
Database - MongoDB Atlas

How to deploy the project.

Frontend Since it's just a react project, just follow below steps:
1. Clone the poller-frontend project.
2. Open terminal and navigate to the project folder
3. Execute npm i to download dependencies
4. Execute npm run build to generate prod build. or
5. Execute npm start to start local server.
6. Deploy the build from dist\ folder on your server.

Note - Frontend will rest endpoints which has base url starting with https://poller-backend.herokuapp.com, so in case of your base url varies, make sure you update it in endpoints.js file

Database Get the MongoDB URI. Make sure the DB user has proper privileges. Create the Database poller
Backend Backend for poller is Node.js. So follow the below steps to execute it
1. Clone the poller-backend project.
2. Open the terminal and navigate to the folder.
3. Execute npm i.
4. Create a folder named configs.js in project root which exports a object as default.
5. Create a account on Sendgrid for mailing services and add your API key to the Object.
6. Also populate Object with MONGODB uri and other details.
7. Create a account on firebase (if you don't have one) and then create a new project.
8. Create a keys folder in project root.
9. Get the admin key JSON and add it in keys folder.