What is live-pool-dashboard?

live-pool-dashboard is a full stack web application for creating and running online polls with live results. Anyone can register for an account, create a poll with custom options, share it with others, and watch the vote counts update instantly as people submit their choices, without needing to refresh the page. A built in analytics dashboard shows charts of the voting results so creators can see how a poll is trending at a glance. The real time updates work through WebSockets, using a library called Socket.io, which keeps an open two way connection between each visitor's browser and the server so new votes appear on every connected screen right away. User accounts are protected with JWT, short for JSON Web Tokens, a common way to keep someone logged in without sending their password with every request, and passwords are stored in hashed form using bcrypt rather than as plain text. On the frontend, the project uses React built with the Vite tool, styled with Tailwind CSS. The backend runs on Node.js with the Express framework, and talks to the database through Prisma, a tool that gives typed, structured access to a relational database such as PostgreSQL or MySQL and manages schema changes over time. The code is split into two folders, one for the frontend and one for the backend, and both come with configuration files for deploying to Vercel and Render. Getting the project running locally means installing Node.js, setting up a database connection string and a JWT secret in an environment file, running the Prisma setup commands to create the database tables, and then starting the backend and frontend development servers separately. The project is released under the MIT license.