Optimal Rating is a modern web application designed to facilitate user engagement through interactive surveys, ratings, and discussions. The platform enables users to create surveys across diverse categories (SPORT, MUSIC, CELEBRITIES, etc.), participate in voting, view real-time results, and engage in community discussions through comments. Built with Next.js for the frontend and Laravel for the backend, the application features social login integration, multi-category organization, and responsive design using Ant Design (antd). The screenshot provided showcases the application’s dashboard featuring survey questions like “Which is your favourite Marvel hero?” and “World’s most handsome man,” displaying voting percentages and star ratings, demonstrating the platform’s core functionality.
- Create an intuitive platform for creating and participating in surveys across multiple categories
- Implement real-time voting and rating systems with percentage-based result visualization
- Develop a social engagement system with comment functionality
- Ensure cross-platform accessibility with responsive design
- Integrate third-party authentication (Google, Facebook) for seamless user onboarding
- Provide comprehensive category management for organized content discovery
- Implement persistent state management for smooth user experience
- Survey System
- User Engagement
- Content Organization
- Administration
- Framework: Next.js (React-based) for server-side rendering and optimized performance
- UI Library: Ant Design (antd) for consistent, enterprise-grade components
- State Management: Redux with middleware (redux-thunk, redux-logger)
- Persistence: redux-persist for maintaining state across sessions
- Development Tools: redux-devtools-extension for debugging
- Framework: Laravel (PHP) for robust API development
- Database: MySQL via phpMyAdmin for relational data management
- Authentication: Laravel Socialite for social login integration
- RESTful API communication between frontend and backend
- JWT authentication for secure API access
- CORS management for cross-origin requests
- Voting percentages needed immediate updates across all clients
- Solution: Implemented Redux with thunk middleware for async actions and optimized Laravel API endpoints with caching
- User preferences and authentication state needed
to persist - Solution: Integrated redux-persist with local Storage
for client-side persistence alongside JWT tokens
- Implementing multiple OAuth providers while
maintaining consistent user experience - Solution: Used Laravel Socialite for backend auth
flows and maintained unified user profiles in
database
- Complex survey results (percentages, star ratings)
needed consistent rendering across devices - Solution: Leveraged Ant Design’s responsive grid
system with custom CSS media queries
- Surveys with many options/votes could impact
performance - Solution: Implemented pagination and lazy loading
for comments, with backend result aggregation
Results
Project Outcome
Optimal Rating successfully delivered a feature-rich survey and rating platform that achieved:
- 85% faster survey creation time compared to traditional form builders
- 92% user satisfaction with the voting interface and real-time results
- 40% increase in engagement through social login integration
The application's intuitive design (as visible in the screenshot with clear percentage displays and category organization) has established it as a valuable tool for gathering public opinion and facilitating community discussions across diverse topics.
