SoftSurv is a light-weight survey app dsigned to send single-question, multiple-choice surveys to your friends and coworkers.
We made SoftSurv using:
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- Handlebars
- Bootstrap
- Express
- Mongoose
- Node.js
- MongoDB
Our general approach was to cleary define a goal or benchmark and develop a series of steps necessary to complete it. Some of those steps required all three of us to commisserate and brainstorm to reach a solution, but we would often divide the list of steps so we could complete tasks individually or through pair progrmaming. Once a benchmark was met, a significant feature was developed, or a significant decision needed to be made, we would reconvene to adjust our individual goals and benchmarks.
We had a difficult time navigating the survey schema in order to increment each survey's answer as the user submitted it. To achieve this, we created a custom route and controller action that would find the survey by ID, and increment the vote count by one before constructing a new question object, which was passed to the survey's update method. The questions were also sorted by number of votes, so the winner would be displayed first.
Survey Schema:
const optionSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
text: String,
votes: Number
});
const surveySchema = new mongoose.Schema({
question: {
type: String,
required: true,
},
options: {
required:true,
type: [optionSchema],
},
_author: {
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'User',
required: true,
},
}, {
timestamps: true,
toJSON: { virtuals: true },
});Controller action to increment and sort questions:
const respond = (req, res, next) => {
let search = { _id: req.params.id };
Survey.findOne(search)
.then(survey => {
if (!survey) {
return next();
}
let responseOptions = survey.options;
responseOptions[req.body.index].votes += 1;
//sorts responseOptions by votes
responseOptions.sort(function(a, b) {
if(a.votes < b.votes){
return 1;
} else if (a.votes > b.votes){
return -1;
}else {
return 0;
}
});
let updatedSurvey = { "survey": {} };
updatedSurvey.options = responseOptions;
return survey.update(updatedSurvey)
.then(() => res.sendStatus(200));
})
.catch(err => next(err));
};We also wanted to be able to add the option to add more questions per survey, and more varieties of answers, such as text, 1-10, etc., but we decided not to pursue those options and focus on the user experience.
- I want to post surveys for my friends to answer
- I want links I can send around so that anyone can answer
- I want to see the results in an intuitive format
- I want to be able to see and delete the surveys I've created
Source code distributed under the MIT license. Text and other assets copyright General Assembly, Inc., all rights reserved.