pollwizard

Web application for creating polls and voting.

Libraries and frameworks used:

• FastAPI
• React.js
• Bootstrap
• SQLAlchemy

Setup

Environment setup

• Install Python.
• Install Node.JS.
• Setup SQL database
• (optional) Create Python virtual environment.

Backend setup

• Add the following environmental variables to the ".env" file, replacing the placeholders with your specific values.

db_user = <your_database_username>
db_pass = <your_database_password>
db_host = <your_database_host>
db_port = <your_database_port>
db_name = <your_database_name>

jwt_secret = <your_256_bit_secret_key>
jwt_algorithm = HS256
jwt_access_token_time = 600
jwt_refresh_token_time = 86400

• Open your terminal and install python modules.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Run the server.

uvicorn main:app --reload

• You can visit this URL to view auto-generated API documentation.

http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs

Frontend setup

• Open your terminal and install packages.

npm install

• Run the server.

npm run dev