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#Trivia-Api

Full Stack Trivia API Frontend Getting Setup tip: this frontend is designed to work with Flask-based Backend. It is recommended you stand up the backend first, test using Postman or curl, update the endpoints in the frontend, and then the frontend should integrate smoothly.

Installing Dependencies Installing Node and NPM This project depends on Nodejs and Node Package Manager (NPM). Before continuing, you must download and install Node (the download includes NPM) from https://nodejs.com/en/download.

Installing project dependencies This project uses NPM to manage software dependencies. NPM Relies on the package.json file located in the frontend directory of this repository. After cloning, open your terminal and run:

npm install tip: npm i is shorthand for npm install

Required Tasks Running Your Frontend in Dev Mode The frontend app was built using create-react-app. In order to run the app in development mode use npm start. You can change the script in the package.json file.

Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser. The page will reload if you make edits.

npm start Request Formatting The frontend should be fairly straightforward and disgestible. You'll primarily work within the components folder in order to edit the endpoints utilized by the components. While working on your backend request handling and response formatting, you can reference the frontend to view how it parses the responses.

After you complete your endpoints, ensure you return to and update the frontend to make request and handle responses appropriately:

Correct endpoints Update response body handling Optional: Styling In addition, you may want to customize and style the frontend by editing the CSS in the stylesheets folder.

Optional: Game Play Mechanics Currently, when a user plays the game they play up to five questions of the chosen category. If there are fewer than five questions in a category, the game will end when there are no more questions in that category.

You can optionally update this game play to increase the number of questions or whatever other game mechanics you decide. Make sure to specify the new mechanics of the game in the README of the repo you submit so the reviewers are aware that the behavior is correct.