toggle

HACC Repository for team "Toggle"

Purpose:

Force Hawaiian Policitians to Youtube. Fundamentally connect politicians to the general voter: an always changing and neverending challenge.

Challenge:

People are shifting away from watching Television in the box and more towards Internet TV. The next generation of voters watch media outlets such as youtube on their mobile devices. How are politicians adapting to such changes in voter behavior?

Outcome:

Not very well. The most recent youtube footage from some policitians are so outdated, going back as far as 2011. Hawaii's own policitians admit things go slow on the islands, but their inaction to addressing public issues onto the latest media trends is a perception that can be easily avoided. Unfortunately, the creation of this application shows that on Youtube Hawaiian politicians are outdated and very boring. Maybe it is time to update their presence to the change in media platforms.

Application Benefit:

Create an application according to voter behavior for those moving toward mobile Internet devices. In other words, create an application for someone with a 10 second attention span, who wants the information hand-delivered to them immediately. Hence, the objective will be to:

• Aggregate the massive amount of data to a simple interface (creating a Google for politician actions).
• Provide the information in 3 clicks or less.
• Link media platform Youtube to each politican profile.
• Allow organizations to easily update content onto the site.

5 commands to run app

1. clone from HACC repository located at https://github.com/HACC2016/toggle

git clone https://github.com/HACC2016/toggle.git

2. install libraries from package.json file

npm install

3. webpack library must be running (open in separate shell)

npm run watch

4. every time to reload webpack (open in separate shell)

npm run build

5. command to run app (open in separate shell)

node server.js

then go open in browser to view application (localhost:8080).