This Server Side Rendering app is based on Osaetin Daniel blog and built upon it. It uses:

• Front End
• Server-Side React Rendering
• Bootstrap3
• Back End
  • Flask
  • Flask-SQLAlchemy
  • Flask-Admin
  • Flask-Migrate
• Background jobs
  • Celery
  • Rabbitmq
• Database
  • Sqlite

The Polling app has the following features:

• A basic authentication system
• Ability to vote on various topics
• Interactive progress bars to show the percentage of votes

After running the app, from your Web Browser type this link: http://127.0.0.1:5000/ and the welcome page will show the login page. Create an account and start creating polls

From the main page click on Create a Poll, create a poll and check the latest polls

Create a poll and set a timer for the duration of the poll and save the poll

There's tree tables:

• topic contains all the various topics we're going to be voting on. For example "Django vs Flask".
• option contains the voting options the users can choose when voting which would be(Django or Flask)
• polls serves as a join table(ManyToMany relationship)between topics and options,this table is needed because of the nature of the voting system where each option can belong to more than one topic at the same time.

Use python 3.6 or higher

Clone the project via https

# git clone https://github.com/georgeerol/PollingApp.git

Run this command on the root folder to install all requirements

# pip install -r requirements.txt

from the root folder cd to the src folder and run:

# python app.py

To run the app with celery first install homebrew then install rabbitmq with homebrew install and finally start rabbitmq

# brew install rabbitmq
# brew services start rabbitmq

then open a new terminal and then run the app

# python app.py

Download and install chocolatey and then run this following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

# choco install rabbitmq

To run rabbitMQ service, cd to the install folder of rabbitmq, C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.3.4\sbin and then run the follow command to enable the plugin

# rabbitmq-plugins.bat enable rabbitmq_management

The RabbitMQ service starts automatically. You can stop/reinstall/start the RabbitMQ service from the Start Menu.

From a new terminal cd to the src folder and run below command:

# celery -A tasks.celery worker --loglevel=info

Note: Start the app before running celery

When the Rabbitmq service is started you can check it at http://localhost:15672/ . The default username and password is guest.