Constituent Contact Form

Problem

• Constituents need an easier way to contact their Senators via the web.

Solution

• One form with the ability to select by Senator or District
• Inputs for Constituent's name, phone number, mailing address, email address, and a message for their Senator.
• A checkbox to prove the user is human
• A submit button that sends the message to the Senator's eamil and stores the input in a database.

Technologies

Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js
• dotenv
• Request
• pg w/ PostgreSQL

Frontend

• AngularJS
• AngularJS Material
• AngularJS reCaptcha
• Google Civiv API
• Google reCaptcha

How To Use

• Fork and Clone the repository.
• Navigate to the directory in terminal
• From terminal run npm install
• Once that completes create a .env file in the root directory
  (the SMTP settings are currently setup for soho's mail server)
  • EMAIL_UN=[email here]
  • EMAIL_PW=[email password here]
  • GOOGLE_API=[Google API key here]
  • SECRET=[Google reCaptcha secret here]
  • PORT=8080
• There is a SQL script that will setup the database
  • Create a database named mn-senate
  • run the database.sql script to setup the tables and constraints
• From terminal run npm start (you'll see the console display 'server is listening on port'...)
• Open a browser and visit the url http://127.0.0.1:8080 (or port specified in .env file)