Petitions

Petitions is a web app for viewing UK Parliament petition data.

The UK's Parliamentary Petitions website is like change.org for political issues affecting the UK. Any UK resident can create a petition and, providing they get enough signatures, have their issue debated in Parliament. This app shows signatures broken out by country and by parliamentary constituency. Try it out here.

Install/Build

Petitions is made with Elm and Sass. The easiest way to build it is with the provided NPM scripts (also compatible with Yarn). But if you don't have NPM/Yarn, it's easy enough to build the project manually.

Start by cloning/downloading the repo. Then do one of the following:

Build With NPM/Yarn (Recommended)

Run npm install (or yarn) in the root directory to install Elm, Sass and other build dependencies
Run npm start (or yarn start) to build the project and serve it from localhost:8080
For development, run npm run watch (or yarn run watch) which is the same as the start command but with live reloading whenever the Sass/Elm source files change

Build Manually

Make sure you have Elm and Sass installed
Create a build folder for the project
Copy the contents of static to your build folder
From the project root, compile the Elm code with elm-make --output=path/to/build/folder/assets/js/elm.js src/elm/Main.elm
Compile the Sass files with sass src/scss/styles.scss:path/to/build/folder/assets/css/styles.css
You can now serve the project from your build folder (or navigate to the files directly with file:///path/to/build/folder/index.html)

TODO

Functionality

Petition search
Indicate closed/rejected status in the petition title
Indicate totals mismatches on the summary page
Indicate government/parliament response status on the details page
Browser history and titles (see Elm's Navigation package, History API, document.title)
Transitions between screens
Provide a "Try again" link if a petition fails to load
Handle edge cases sensibly (e.g. no signatures, one signature, all signatures in one country)
Warn user if localStorage is unavailable
Add remove/clear links to petition lists

Project

Tests
Uglify Elm JS
Make sure the build scripts work on Windows

Licensing

Petitions is provided under an MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

License

deepilla/petitions

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