Alright, so today I’m gonna walk you through this thing I was messing with – “the party never ends voting.” Sounds kinda cool, right? Well, let me tell ya, it was a bit of a ride.
It all started when I wanted to whip up a simple voting system. Just something basic, where folks could choose their favorite option from a list. I figured, how hard could it be? Famous last words, eh?
First thing I did was fire up my trusty text editor. I decided to keep it super simple, using just HTML, CSS, and a little bit of JavaScript. I know, fancy, right? I started by laying out the basic HTML structure. You know, the usual <html>, <head>, <body> tags. Nothing too exciting there.
Next up, I needed to create the form for the voting options. I added a few <input type="radio"> buttons, each with a label. I wanted it to look decent, so I threw in some CSS to make it less…ugly. I’m no designer, but I managed to make it somewhat presentable.
Then came the fun part: the JavaScript. I wanted to make it so that when someone clicked a radio button, it would somehow register their vote. I started by adding an event listener to each radio button. When clicked, the event listener would trigger a function that I had to write.
This is where things got a little hairy. I didn’t want to use a database or anything too complicated. So, I decided to use localStorage to store the votes. Basically, every time someone voted, I’d update the vote count in localStorage. Crude, but effective, at least for this small project.
The function I wrote would read the current vote count from localStorage, increment it for the selected option, and then write it back to localStorage. I also added some code to display the current vote totals on the page. Just a basic display, nothing fancy.
I ran into a few snags along the way, of course. For example, I accidentally overwrote the entire localStorage at one point. That was fun to debug. And I had to figure out how to handle cases where localStorage was empty (i.e., no one had voted yet).
After a lot of trial and error, I finally got it working! It wasn’t pretty, and it certainly wasn’t production-ready, but it did the job. People could vote, and the votes were recorded. Success!
Key takeaways from this little experiment:
localStorageis your friend (sometimes).- Debugging JavaScript can be a real pain.
- Simple is sometimes better.
In the end, “the party never ends voting” was a fun little project. It reminded me that even simple things can be challenging, and that there’s always something new to learn. Now, I’m thinking about adding some more features, like the ability to see the voting history or something. But for now, I’m happy with what I’ve got.
Who knows, maybe I’ll even turn it into a real product someday. But for now, it’s just a fun little project that I can say I built from scratch. And that’s something, right?
