Voting System (MERN)

A full-stack MERN Voting System project built to practice real-world authentication, backend APIs, database integration, and voting logic.

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📌 Overview

This project demonstrates a complete MERN workflow including:

• Backend API development with Node.js + Express
• MongoDB database integration
• Frontend UI built with React
• Voting system logic (create, vote, results)

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🧱 Tech Stack

• Frontend: React, JavaScript
• Backend: Node.js, Express.js
• Database: MongoDB
• Tools: Git, Postman

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✨ Features

• User authentication (if implemented)
• Create voting polls (if implemented)
• Vote for candidates/options
• View results (if implemented)
• Backend REST APIs

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⚙️ Installation & Setup (Run Locally)

1) Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/HardikPatil0/Voting-System.git
cd Voting-System


## Install dependencies

This project may contain separate frontend and backend folders.

If your project has client/ and server/ folders, use:

cd server
npm install


Open a new terminal:

cd client
npm install


## Environment Variables

Create a .env file inside the backend folder (example: server/.env):

PORT=5000
MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_connection_string
JWT_SECRET=your_secret_key

4) Run the project

Backend:

npm start


Frontend:

npm run dev

## 📌 Notes

Deployment is not added yet (local setup only).

This project will be improved with better documentation and deployment in future updates.