https://github.com/tynes/congress-source
Some simple info about congress members
https://github.com/tynes/congress-source
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Some simple info about congress members
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/tynes/congress-source
- Owner: tynes
- Created: 2016-06-06T04:43:56.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-10-11T17:14:27.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-14T21:16:25.226Z (2 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 771 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 7
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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# congress-source
## Philosophy/Intent
With the spectacle that is US Politics and our momentum as a society, there has never been a
more important time to be informed about our politicians. Technology can be used to help
provide transparency and level out the playing field between different groups, and I would
like to see more of this philosophy applied to politics. I built this web application to provide
transparency into who is representing us - fulfilling our own personal needs and desires takes
too much effort to stay fully informed about politics - therefore staying on top of politics
ought to be made easier.
## Congress Source!
### Features
- Search through members of the US Government
- Filter by Political Party (Currently only supporting the Republicans and Democrats, the parties that the US Government supports)
- Search by State or Name
- Responsive Material Design
- Pagination system
- Display timer ticking down to when that person's seat is up for election on tap (mobile) or mouseover
### Responsive Design
I originally wanted to display each member's approval rating along with how long that person is still in office.
Those 2 pieces of information are really interesting when portrayed together. Unfortunately, I was not
able to find a free and good source for individual member's ratings. If you know of any sources for that kind of
data, please contact me at [email protected] and I would love to chat!
### Tech Stack
- React
- Sass
- Node/Express
- MongoDB
### API
To get data from the database:
```
GET /search
```
Querystrings are used to return the appropriate data
The search query:
``/search?query=QUERY_HERE``
To differentiate searching by name or state:
```/search?searchBy=name``` or ```/search?searchBy=state```
To add a party filter:
```/search?party=Republican``` or ```/search?party=Democrat```
The pagination queries use begin & end:
``/search?begin=0&end=8``
Any of the querystrings can be mixed and matched for results
TODO:
Figure out the Dockerfile
Figure out how to build the DB for deployment
I added a /test path that invokes the searchMethods.buildDB()