kuaiph / ethereum-dapp-voting-dpolls

dPolls - A decentralized voting system on top of Ethereum

dPolls - Decentralized voting system

A decentralized voting system proposed in NTU DApp course - https://dpolls.netlify.com

Feature

• Decentralized voting system on top of Ethereum
  • Anyone can host their own polls
  • Anyone can vote for polls
  • Adding up to 256 options for a poll
  • Poll closed on a specific block number
  • Anyone can view results anytime
• Be a host by applying for a membership
• Membership Plan
  • 1 ETH for CITIZEN
    • A max number of 10 times creating a poll
  • 10 ETH for DIAMOND
    • Unlimited
• Contract administration (smart contract only)
  • Set admin
  • Withdraw funds from smart contract
  • Reclaim ownership of registries in case of new core contract replacement

Table of Contents

• smart-contract
  • Smart contracts on Ethereum blockchain
• frontend
  • User interface

Smart Contracts

Prerequisites

• Truffle - blockchain development framework
• Ganache - private blockchain network

Components

• VotingCore - Core functionality
• VotingHostRegistry - Maintain a list of registered hosts and memberships
• VotingRegistry - Maintain a list of active/inactive polls
• Voting - A poll entity

Run testing units

$ truffle test

Deployment

Set all parameters in file .env (referenced from .env.template) or as environment variables

• MNEMONIC - Mnemonic seed for use of contract deployment
• INFURA_KEY - Infura Secret Token to get access to network
• DEPOSIT_ACCOUNT - Deposit account for ethers withdrawals from core contract

$ npm install
$ # All required environment parameters in file .env are ready at this point.
$ truffle deploy --network <NETWORK>

Frontend

Pre-configuration options

To run the frontend, please specify all required values. Set all parameters in file .env (referenced from .env.template) or as environment variables

• REACT_APP_VOTING_CORE_ADDRESS - Voting Core contract address
• REACT_APP_NETWORK_ID - Restrict access to a specific Network ID (1: Mainnet, 3: Ropsten..., etc) where the Voting Core deployed (optional - defaults to all network) and provide users with conditional feature enhancements (such as predefined Etherscan links by known network ids)
• REACT_APP_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_CODE - Set tracking code for page views (optional - disabled by default)
• REACT_APP_HOST_ENV - Host environment to build conditional static content (optional - defaults to 'production')
  • except for production - Tell search engine not to index

Run dev server

$ npm start

Build for production environment

$ npm build
$ ## dist folder: ./build
$ cd build

Place files inside folder build in static web server (e.g. Nginx)