Problem: Voters often listen to just their favorite news source for election information.
Goal: To efficiently inform voters through a comprehensive yet simple approach.
Solution: Create a familiar platform with focus on political news - Rotten Tomatoes for politics
A candidate with high positive reviews will be "swimming" (indicated by a life preserver icon), otherwise, they will be "sinking" (indicated by an anchor image).
Reviews come from both verified journalist and anonyous users and their scores for a certain candidate are calculated sperately.
React.js
Heroku + Parse
Most of this project was made with React.js for the front-end. The back-end is provided through a custom NoSQL backend using Parse installed to Heroku. There is the ability to log-in as well as pull data on an existing candidate.
need Node.js installed and access to npm
- Clone this repo:
git clone https://github.com/willthexu/moodyhack2018.git - Install dependencies:
npm install
- Start localhost server:
npm start - Visit localhost address (you should be automatically redirected to localhost when running
npm start:
localhost address should be:http://localhost:3000
This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.
In the project directory, you can run:
Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.
Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.
Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!
See the section about deployment for more information.
Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject, you can’t go back!
If you aren’t satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.
Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (Webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you’re on your own.
You don’t have to ever use eject. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn’t feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn’t be useful if you couldn’t customize it when you are ready for it.
You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.
To learn React, check out the React documentation.