putting-it-all-together-lab

Objectives

Build out a full blackjack game!

Instructions

Build out a functional blackjack game with all that we've learned about React, Flux and Redux. Use the tests as a guideline, but, also, test your code in browser by running npm start!

Resources

Stack Overflow on Deep Clone

Putting it all together - Blackjack

Build a Flux implementation of a blackjack game!

Objectives

Build a working version of blackjack using Flux patterns
Store application state in one central store
Use class based and functional components
Update state via user interaction with your components by following the Flux pattern

Instructions

Your goal is to build a version of Blackjack. In our version of the game, a user should be able to click a button, "hit me", to get a new card dealt to them. When they click this button, they will be dealt a new random card from the deck and their total points will reflect their total card value.

A user will be able to "hit me" as many times as they want until they click a button called "stay" or their total card value goes over 21. The "stay" button should cause the AI player to play their turn as if they were a user (call the same "hit me" functionality to continue adding cards). The AI player should no longer "hit me" when their value exceeds the User's total value.

A user wins if they have a greater value than the AI player after the AI player takes their turn or if the AI player looses by exceeding 21 points. The user loses if they exceed 21 points or if the AI player has a greater total value that is not greater than 21.

Clone down this lab, run npm install and npm test to get started. This is a complicated assignment, so read the instructions below very carefully.

Things to Think About

We need a state object that can keep track of the following:

Total deck of cards
User's cards
AI player's card

Your initial state should therefore look something like this (already provided in the reducer):

const initialState = {
  game: {
    userCards: [],
    aiCards: [],
    deck: [
     {name:"Ace of Diamonds", value: 1},
     {name:"Ace of Spades", value: 1},
     {name:"Ace of Clubs", value: 1},
     {name:"Ace of Hearts", value: 1},
     {name:"Two of Diamonds", value: 2},
     {name:"Two of Spades", value: 2},
     {name:"Two of Clubs", value: 2},
     {name:"Two of Hearts", value: 2},
     {name:"Three of Diamonds", value: 3},
     {name:"Three of Spades", value: 3},
     {name:"Three of Clubs", value: 3},
     {name:"Three of Hearts", value: 3},
     {name:"Four of Diamonds", value: 4},
     {name:"Four of Spades", value: 4},
     {name:"Four of Clubs", value: 4},
     {name:"Four of Hearts", value: 4},
     {name:"Five of Diamonds", value: 5},
     {name:"Five of Spades", value: 5},
     {name:"Five of Clubs", value: 5},
     {name:"Five of Hearts", value: 5},
     {name:"Six of Diamonds", value: 6},
     {name:"Six of Spades", value: 6},
     {name:"Six of Clubs", value: 6},
     {name:"Six of Hearts", value: 6},
     {name:"Seven of Diamonds", value: 7},
     {name:"Seven of Spades", value: 7},
     {name:"Seven of Clubs", value: 7},
     {name:"Seven of Hearts", value: 7},
     {name:"Eight of Diamonds", value: 8},
     {name:"Eight of Spades", value: 8},
     {name:"Eight of Clubs", value: 8},
     {name:"Eight of Hearts", value: 8},
     {name:"Nine of Diamonds", value: 9},
     {name:"Nine of Spades", value: 9},
     {name:"Nine of Clubs", value: 9},
     {name:"Nine of Hearts", value: 9},
     {name:"Ten of Diamonds", value: 10},
     {name:"Ten of Spades", value: 10},
     {name:"Ten of Clubs", value: 10},
     {name:"Ten of Hearts", value: 10},
     {name:"Jack of Diamonds", value: 10},
     {name:"Jack of Spades", value: 10},
     {name:"Jack of Clubs", value: 10},
     {name:"Jack of Hearts", value: 10},
     {name:"Queen of Diamonds", value: 10},
     {name:"Queen of Spades", value: 10},
     {name:"Queen of Clubs", value: 10},
     {name:"Queen of Hearts", value: 10},
     {name:"King of Diamonds", value: 10},
     {name:"King of Spades", value: 10},
     {name:"King of Clubs", value: 10},
     {name:"King of Hearts", value: 10}
   ]
  }
}

Step 1: Buid the Store, Reducer and Action Creators

First thing's first, bring in a store.js from a past readme or lab (bonus points if you can write out the entire store without help). Import the createStore function to our index.js file and create a store with the provided blackjack_reducer. We will come back to building out the rest of our reducer.

####Actions

In our actions folder we already have an empty file created to hold all of our actions called blackjack_actions.js. We will be building out five different actions to handle our user interaction and game logic:

fetchDeck
setAICards
setUserCards
hitAI
hitUser

The fetchDeck action should:

Be called during the initial load of our application
Just tell our reducer to return the full game object already provided in our blackjack_reducer (Note: This action should not need a payload key-value pair, only type)

The setAICards and setUserCards actions should:

Be called during the intial load of our application
Take in an argument of just our deck object, which is nested inside state
Use the deck object to select two random cards from it
Return an object with a type key that tells our blackjack_reducer what to do and a payload key that is an array of the two card objects obtained

The hitAI and hitUser actions should:

Take in an argument of just our deck object
Use the deck object to select one random card from it
Return an object with a type key that tells our blackjack_reducer what to do and a payload key that is the one card object obtained

###Reducer

The reducer should be able to respond to the actions listed above. We already have the reducer case statement built out for the fetchDeck action.

The reducer should respond to the setAiCards and setUserCards actions by:

Creating a new clone of the state object
Dealing the two cards received from the action to the AI or User card collection
Removing the two cards from the state's deck property
Returning a new copy of game state with the new AI or User's card collection and the updated deck collection (with the two cards you dealt from it having been removed)

The reducer should respond to the hitAI and hitUser actions by:

Creating a new clone of the state object
Dealing the card received from the action to the AI or User card collection
Removing the card from the state's deck property
Returning a new copy of game state with the new AI or User's card collection and the updated deck collection (with the new card you dealt from it having been removed)

Step 2: Building The Components

We'll be using both Class based components and functional components to build our application. Build a top level Class based component, App, that receives a prop key of store to pull the game info from state.

App will render two child components:

userBlackjack
aiBlackjack

userBlackjack is a functional component that renders the following info:

display the text "Player1" in a <h1> tag
display the user total in a <h2> tag
display the user's cards as <li> tags inside one <ul> tag
display a form with a button that has the text of "hit me"
- This button will trigger an onSubmit action that should call a function defined in the App class
display another form with a button that has the text of "stay"
- This button will trigger an onSubmit action that should call a function defined in the App class

aiBlackjack is a functional component that renders the following info:

display the text "Computer" in a <h1> tag
display the ai total in a <h2> tag
display the ai's cards as <li> tags inside one <ul> tag

The App component should have four functions defined:

hitMe
calculateAIScore
calculateUserScore
stay

The hitMe function checks if the user is calling the function or the ai and dispatches either the hitUser or hitAI action based on which was called. This will need to be passed down to userBlackjack as props.

The calculateAIScore function uses the data in state to calculate the AI's current card total. This will need to be passed down to aiBlackjack as props.

The calculateUserScore function uses the data in state to calculate the User's current card total. This will need to be passed down to userBlackjack as props.

The stay function will grab the AI's score and User's score to determain whether or not the AI will have to call on hit me. This will need to be apssed down to userBlackjack as props.

Pass hitMe to userBlackjack under a prop of hitMe; pass calculateUserScore to userBlackjack under a prop of score; pass stay to userBlackjack under a prop of stay and pass calculateAIScore to aiBlackjack under a prop of score.

The stay method should determine whether or not there is a winner. To do so think about the following:

The user wins if they have a point total that is greater than the AI's, but less than or equal to 21, after stay is clicked.
The computer wins if they have a point total that is greater than the User's, but less than or equal to 21, after stay is clicked.

Note: Remember to wrap your ReactDOM.render function in a render method that then subscribes to the store.subscribe function.

blessedsoy/putting-it-all-together-lab-wdf-000

putting-it-all-together-lab

Objectives

Instructions

Resources

Putting it all together - Blackjack

Objectives

Instructions

Things to Think About

Step 1: Buid the Store, Reducer and Action Creators

Step 2: Building The Components