OpenPoll is a free and open-source platform to create and share polls. Use moderation features to share your polls during a live event or meetings.
OpenPoll uses SQLite, Server Sent Events, and Redis to create fast real-time polls. Build on top of TRPC, Shadcn/UI and litestream/turso.
View Example Poll: https://openpoll.app/poll/trU02FHXws
OpenPoll is build on top of Astro. It uses the following technologies to create a combination of a static and dynamic website.
- Astro as the main framework.
- React for the dynamic parts of the website.
- TRPC for the API. Trpc is a framework that allows you to create a type-safe API. In OpenPoll TRPC APIs get called from Astro componentens on the server side and from react components on the client side.
- shadcn/ui - Beautifully designed components built with Radix UI and Tailwind CSS.
- Tailwind CSS for styling.
- Drizzle as the DB-ORM
- SQLite as the database. The DB can be hosted on Turso or on your own server using litestream and the tiny stack. See https://logsnag.com/blog/the-tiny-stack (The Tiny Stack (Astro, SQLite, Litestream))
- Redis is used for Rate Limiting and PubSub
OpenPoll can be self-hosted. You can decide to either use Sqlite locally backed by Litestream or use Turso. To configure OpenPoll to use Litestream uncomment the specific lines inside the db.ts file and add --use-litestream to the Dockerfile run.sh script.
Currently im running the OpenPoll on a Fly.io instance. For more information on how to deploy OpenPoll to Fly.io see the Fly.io Docs