Would You Rather Project

This project is part of my Udacity React course.

It creates a simple frontend in React for to play the Would you Rather game.

  • Users can add questions that have the following format:
    • Would you rather "option one" or "option two"
  • Users can also answer questions that are posted
  • When a user answers a question, they will be able to see how many votes each option had
  • There is also a leaderboard that will rank users based on the sum of both created and answered questions

The current app functionality relies on a "mock" backend created by Udacity that doesn't handle creating new users, so to log in just select one of the user names that are available.

Screenshot of the home screen when signed in: Home screen screenshot

Getting started

To get started developing right away:

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

Data

There are two types of objects stored in the 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

Backend API reference

  • _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"