Web Development Q2 Project - Get Political

Final project write-up

• What's the name of your project?

  • Get Political

• What problem does it solve?

  • If someone wants to keep up with specific politicians they would have to go to their individual websites, Twitter feeds, etc. The time it takes to keep up on politics leads many citizens to choose not to pay attention. Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry.

• Who has this problem?

  • Every voter in the U.S., especially those who desire to become more informed.

• How does your project solve this problem?

  • The main goal of the site is to allow those that are interested in politics to create a customized dashboard to keep up with their favorite politicians and their Twitter feed. It also allows a user to search for the specific elected politicians that represent them.

• What web APIs did it use?

  • Sunlight Foundation API
  • Google Civics API

• What technologies did it use?

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • Ajax
  • Materialize
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • bcrypt
  • PostgreSQL
  • Joi

• What was the most valuable thing you learned working in a group?

  • It was the first opportunity I had to work closely with someone else's code. I also became more aware of writing code that is easier for someone else to use and modify.

• What was the biggest challenge you had to overcome?

  • Figuring out the best way to connect the client-side code with the server-side code.