poll.horse/README.md

Poll.horse

Simple polling service for public polls

With strawpoll being somewhat very broken I decided to implement my own. Let's go!

What is this

If you have never used strawpoll, in short this is a website to easily make small polls without a fuss.

Contributing

The core is written in TypeScript, a typed superset to Javascript and executed with NodeJS. Pull Requests welcome.

Before cloning this repository, make sure you have Node installed.

Then clone this repository, open a terminal/command prompt and type npm i to install the required dependencies.

ts-node is recommended to test during development manually, install it with npm i -g ts-node typescript.

Directory Structure

• ./dist - The finalized and compiled files that can be used with node
• ./src - The source files of the project
• ./test - Files required for unit testing, aka test setup/teardown and test spec files
• ./utils - Various utility scripts not part of the main source code

Scripts

Execute the scripts with npm run <script>

• find-todo - Finds remaining TODO: in the code and warns the developer that there are still things that are unfinished
• mocha - Runs the unit tests in the /test directory
• lint - Runs eslint and checks for code styling problems
• build - Compile the TypeScript Source to dist/
• test - Runs lint, find-todo and mocha in order
• debug - Start the ./src/main.ts with node and start the debugger on port 9229. Files will be watched for changes.
• start - Run test and build, then try and execute the ./dist/main.js in the ./dist directory to test

Components

This project makes use of the following components. Thanks a lot to the respective creators:

• textFit
• Google Charts