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Posted by Sarah Thomas
Sarah Thomas
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Recommendations for drop-in voting button system?

Hi everyone, I'm building a simple website with a list of items (lets say about 100 for now) and I want users to vote on items they like. A few more details:

  • don't necessarily need more than one way of voting (eg upvotes/downvotes/reactions), just need a single button/counter per item
  • don't need to limit the number of items a person can vote on
  • need to validate that someone isn't voting on the same item multiple times
  • prefer that validation does not require signing in

I'm comfortable doing any front end design work with CSS or HTML but I do not have the back end experience to implement this on my own just yet so I hope there is something readily available out there. I didn't see anything immediately promising after some google searches.

Thanks in advance!

1 Answer

Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 Points
Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 Points

I'm guessing what you need to do is give them a cookie that let's you say they've voted, and then as long as they don't delete their cookies they can't vote again.