This project is aimed at providing greater transparency to local DC election finances, which have historically been pretty opaque.
The project provides an open API for querying the data as well as a front end that provides visualizations of the data and is eay to compare multiple campaigns.

All of our data is pulled from the Office of Campaign Finance

The site is very much in a beta status, so if you notice any issues or have any suggestions please open a ticket.

The data is stored in several MongoDB collections on which an express based RESTish API sits and is run on AWS EC2.
The front end is built with React and is run through github pages

Visit https://github.com/codefordc/dc-campaign-finance-watch repo.

In the top-right corner of the repo, click Fork Github Help

git clone https://github.com/<your github username>/dc-campaign-finance-watch
cd dc-campaign-finance-watch

Get Docker Download and Install docker based on your current system.

Get Docker-Compose Download and Install docker-compose based on your current system.

The following assume that you've install docker and docker-compose on your current system.

This will run a local instance of the frontend that will talk to the public API.
Any changes you make to source files should be automatically reloaded in the browser.

docker-compose up dc-campaign-finance-ui

Install Node Version Manager

With nvm installed, execute:

nvm install 6.10.2
nvm use 6.10.2

Install Yarn

With the above node version set and yarn installed, execute:

yarn

After npm install complete, execute:

yarn start

Visit DC Campaign Finance Local App to see running app.

This will start a mongodb and seed it with dc-campaign-finance-mongodatabase.zip content. Each call to mongo-seed will drop the existing database.

docker-compose up mongo-seed

The following assume that you've seeded your mongodb. It will start a web app connected to your local api.

docker-compose up dc-campaign-finance-api

Visit DC Campaign Finance Local App to see running app.

This will run a production instance of the frontend that will talk to the public API.

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.production.yml up -d

Contributions are always welcome! We are in the process of pulling together a checklist for submitting a PR, but for now the only thing to keep in mind is to avoid adding a PR with linting errors. There is an .eslintrc file included in the repo that should help out with that.