/reactnd-project-would-you-rather-starter

Starter code for the "Would You Rather?" Project

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Would You Rather Project

Would You Rather is a web app that lets the user play the “Would You Rather?” game. The game goes like this: A user is asked a question in the form: “Would you rather [option A] or [option B] ?”. Answering "neither" or "both" is against the rules.

In the app, users will be able to answer questions, see which questions they haven’t answered, see how other people have voted, post questions, and see the ranking of users on the leaderboard.

Description

The Users has a way to login through the login page. Once the user logs in, the home page is shown.

Information about the logged in user appears on the navigation bar. If someone tries to navigate anywhere by entering the address in the address bar, the user is asked to sign in and then the requested page is shown. The application allows the user to log out and log back in.

Once the user logs in, the user will be able to toggle between his/her answered and unanswered polls on the home page, which is located at the root. The polls in both categories are arranged from the most recently created (top) to the least recently created (bottom). The unanswered questions shown by default, and the name of the logged in user is visible on the page.

Each polling question has a link to the details of that poll. The details of each poll is available at questions/:question_id.

How to start the app

  • install all project dependencies with npm install
  • start the development server with npm start

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.

  1. _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.

  1. _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
  1. _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"