Boring Political Project!

Access the app on Heroku here

HomePage

List of Bills, dragging a bill over will display further information

Local Representative page, found using Geolocation API, or manual address entry

Table of Contents generated with DocToc

• Tech Used
• API Reference
• Installation
• Functionality
• License
• In Retrospect
• Next Steps
• Group Members Responsibilities

Tech Used

• less.js
• Bootstrap
• Firebase
• interact.js
• jQuery

API

• ProPublica Congress
• Google Civic Information
• Geolocation
• Mapquest Reverse Geocode

Installation

To run the application locally, first clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/CavanWagg/Boring-Political-App.git

Next, move into the project folder and install the dependencies

cd Boring-Political-App
npm install

Finally, run the server locally

node server

Functionality

• User searches for topic
• User can drag and drop bills to learn more about them
• If they choose, user can click get involved button
• 'Get Involved' button asks for user's location
• Based on user's location, representatives will be shown

License

MIT License

In Retrospect

• Start think about accessibility early on!!
• Use ESLint, Gulp - other task runners

Next Steps

• When congressional people are shown - we would like to show how these people have previously voted on issues
• Breaking data down to show more local representatives
• Incorporate Tweets from politicians (able to obtain twitter handles from Google Civic API)

Group Members' Responsibilities

• Project Management & Information Architecture: Maddy
• Interface/Experience Design: Majid
• Web Content and Technology: Cavan
• Web Development and Production: Robert and Dan
• Quality Assurance and Editing: Group