Would You Rather

Description

Would You Rather is a game in which the user has to choose one of two options. This React-based version includes questions on various topics.

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

Requirements

• Node.js

Installaton and Usage

1. Download or clone the repo.
2. cd into the project directory.
3. Run npm install to install dependencies.
4. Run npm start to start the server.
5. Open http://localhost:3000 and start playing!

Contents

The project contains a number of important files:

1. _DATA.JS - The mock backend. Check this part for more details.
2. index.js - the base JavaScript file, which renders the whole app.

Actions

Located in: src/actions

Contains the Redux store actions required to run the app. Actions are divided into three files (mirroring the three parts of the store):

1. currentUser.js - Contains actions relating to the currently logged in user, such as login and logout.
2. questions.js - Contains actions relating to the game questions, such as adding initial data and adding new questions.
3. shared.js - Contains async action creators relating to both questions and users.
4. users.js - Contains actions relating to the list of currently registered users, such as getting initial data.

Components

Located in: src/components

Contains the app's components. These include:

1. App.js (as well as App.css and App.test.js) - The App component. Includes all components in the app.
2. Home.js - The Home component. Displays a list of links to answered and unanswered questions to the logged-in user.
3. Leaderboard.js - The Leaderboard component. Displays a table with the stats for all existing users.
4. LoginPage.js - The LoginPage component. Contains a login page in which the user can set the currentUser.
5. NewQuestion.js - The NewQuestion component. Contains a form with which the user can add a new question to the mock database.
6. Question.js The Question component. Contains a Would You Rather question.

Middleware

Located in: src/middleware

Contains the middleware used by this app's store. As of right now, includes two files:

1. index.js - The entry point for middleware; contains the Redux applyMiddleware call, which applies thunk (from Redux-Thunk) and any middleware in this directory.
2. logger.js - A logger middleware (for development only!). Logs actions and current store state to the console.

Reducers

Located in: src/reducers

Contains the reducers used by this app's store. There are currently three reducers, mirroring the three parts of the store, as well as an entry point:

1. currentUser.js - Contains the reducer updating currently logged in user. Responsible for the 'currentUser' part of the store.
2. index.js - Entry point for reducers. Contains the combineReducers call, combining the three reducers and returning a single reducer to be used by the store.
3. questions.js - Contains the reducer updating the list of game questions. Responsible for the 'questions' part of the store.
4. users.js - Contains the reducer updating the list of registered users. Responsible for the 'users' part of the store.

Dependencies

This project utilises several dependencies:

1. react - the React framework.
2. react-dom - React's package of DOM-specific methods.
3. react-scripts - Configuration and scripts for Create React App (the base of this project).
4. redux and react-redux - Redux store and React-specific Redux bindings.
5. react-router-dom - React's router.
6. redux-thunk - A Redux middleware for handling asynchronous requests.
7. Font Awesome - An icon library and toolkit (Official site). Contains the following dependencies:
   • @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core - Library core package.
   • @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons - The library's free solid icons.
   • @fortawesome/react-fontawesome - The library's React integration.

Mock-Server

The _DATA.js file represents a fake database and methods that let you access the data. The only thing you need to edit in the _DATA.js file is the value of avatarURL. Each user should have an avatar, so you’ll need to add the path to each user’s avatar.

Mock server provided by Udacity (see original here).

Data

There are two types of objects stored in our database:

• Users
• Questions

Users

Users include:

Attribute	Type	Description
id	String	The user’s unique identifier
name	String	The user’s first name and last name
avatarURL	String	The path to the image file
questions	Array	A list of ids of the polling questions this user created
answers	Object	The object's keys are the ids of each question this user answered. The value of each key is the answer the user selected. It can be either 'optionOne' or 'optionTwo' since each question has two options.

Questions

Questions include:

Attribute	Type	Description
id	String	The question’s unique identifier
author	String	The author’s unique identifier
timestamp	String	The time when the question was created
optionOne	Object	The first voting option
optionTwo	Object	The second voting option

Voting Options

Voting options are attached to questions. They include:

Attribute	Type	Description
votes	Array	A list that contains the id of each user who voted for that option
text	String	The text of the option

Your code will talk to the database via 4 methods:

• _getUsers()
• _getQuestions()
• _saveQuestion(question)
• _saveQuestionAnswer(object)

1. _getUsers() Method

Description: Get all of the existing users from the database.
Return Value: Object where the key is the user’s id and the value is the user object.

2. _getQuestions() Method

Description: Get all of the existing questions from the database.
Return Value: Object where the key is the question’s id and the value is the question object.

3. _saveQuestion(question) Method

Description: Save the polling question in the database.
Parameters: Object that includes the following properties: author, optionOneText, and optionTwoText. More details about these properties:

Attribute	Type	Description
author	String	The id of the user who posted the question
optionOneText	String	The text of the first option
optionTwoText	String	The text of the second option

Return Value: An object that has the following properties: id, author, optionOne, optionTwo, timestamp. More details about these properties:

Attribute	Type	Description
id	String	The id of the question that was posted
author	String	The id of the user who posted the question
optionOne	Object	The object has a text property and a votes property, which stores an array of the ids of the users who voted for that option
optionTwo	Object	The object has a text property and a votes property, which stores an array of the ids of the users who voted for that option
timestamp	String	The time when the question was created

4. _saveQuestionAnswer(object) Method

Description: Save the answer to a particular polling question in the database. Parameters: Object that contains the following properties: authedUser, qid, and answer. More details about these properties:

Attribute	Type	Description
authedUser	String	The id of the user who answered the question
qid	String	The id of the question that was answered
answer	String	The option the user selected. The value should be either "optionOne" or "optionTwo"

Create React App

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Known Issues

There are no current issues at the time.