An app for conducting polls built using Java (Spring-Boot), Maven, JSP, Hibernate and MySQL.

1. Features
2. Deployment
   • Docker build
   • Manual build
3. Screenshots

• User login/register
• Create/View channels for dedicated topics
• Create/View posts in subscribed channels
• Search users by name or username
• Search channels by name
• View all posts by a user
• View all posts in a channel

The two ways to deploy and run/test the application are listed below:

This build uses docker-compose to run the latest images of pollify and mysql. The images are pulled from Docker Hub, if not present.

1. Navigate to docker folder from root directory.
2. Edit the environment variables in .env file, if required.
3. Run docker-compose up. Add sudo if required.
4. Open the browser and navigate to the port specified in .env file as PORT_SERVER.

This build runs the Spring-Boot project as a Java application and connects it externally to a MySQL instance.

1. Navigate to app folder from root directory.
2. Edit the pom.xml file to change the field packaging (Line 17) from war to jar.
3. Navigate to src/main/resources/ and edit the file named application.properties.
4. Replace the values of spring.datasource.username and spring.datasource.password with your username and password.
5. Configure your MySQL instance to grant permissions to your user, if required.
6. Navigate to app folder from root directory and run mvn clean package.
7. A new directory named target will be created.
8. Run java -jar pollify-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar from a terminal by navigating inside target folder.
9. Open the browser and navigate to localhost:8080.

Login Screen	Dashboard
Create Channel	View Channels
Create Post	View Posts
View Users	Submit Response