Elections  

A modern platform for managing elections, designed specifically for GM Week and other student government elections at RPI.

Features

• Simpler nominations
• Accessible candidate and party information
• Modern web goodness

Deployment

This website is built in a modified MEAN stack (MariaDB, Express.js, Angular.js, and Node), and can be deployed using the following steps:

1. Clone this git repository by running the following command in a Git-enabled terminal:

   • > git clone https://github.com/wtg/elections.git

2. Navigate into the directory of the application:

   • > cd elections

3. If Node is installed on your computer, skip this step.

   • Install Node here.

4. Install all necessary dependencies by running the following commands:

   • > npm install

5. If MySQL is installed on your computer, skip this step. Install MySQL or MariaDB (the open-source equivalent).

6. Make a copy of devconfig.example.js and name it devconfig.js. Provide details about the database connection (host, port, username, password), as shown in the example.

   • This could be completed in the terminal by running: > cp devconfig.example.js devconfig.js
   • Blank configuration variables are provided in the file.

7. Run the server: npm start. This command will also create the database for the site if it doesn't currently exist.

Note: if NODE_ENV is "production", npm start will serve static files from the dist folder, which you can have Webpack build by running npm run build. If NODE_ENV is "development", npm start will automatically run Webpack and serve assets from memory.

9. Navigate to localhost:3000 in your browser, and pat yourself on the back—your instance is deployed.

Credits

This project was created by the Web Technologies Group.

Developers

The core development team consists of:

• Justin Etzine
• Jason Lee
• Sidney Kochman
• Rob Russo

A list of all contributors can be found here.