README.md

Dino Democracy

dApp to vote on the name of the newest dinosaurs

About this Project

This toy project was made to explore and learn technologies for making decentralized applications.

Features

Submitting a New Dino Name

Voting on a Dino Name

Displaying the Winner

Technology Used

• Truffle Suite
• Solidity
• web3.js
• React

Getting Started

1. Install truffle with npm install truffle -g
2. Install Ganache
3. Set up a new workspace and point it to truffle-config.js in the root directory.
4. In the root directoy run

truffle compile
truffle migrate

5. cd into the client directory and run

npm start

6. Install MetaMask
7. Head to localhost:3000 and the MetaMask overlay should pop up.
8. Click import using Secret Recovery Phrase and paste in the code from Ganache.
9. Checkout the Truffle tutorial for additional details on setting up.