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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 (over 8 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2016-10-11T17:14:27.000Z (about 8 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-11-06T18:01:10.256Z (about 2 months ago)
Language: JavaScript
Size: 771 KB
Stars: 0
Watchers: 2
Forks: 0
Open Issues: 7
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md

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README

# 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!
![Main Page](http://i63.tinypic.com/2ufbo6x.png "Logo Title Text 1")

### 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
![responsive2](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6626818/19016964/a22b287a-87de-11e6-856e-80d1f152eb17.gif)

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()