Type Fighter

A full-stack JavaScript team hackathon project for Mintbean! Our application Type Fighter allows you to put your typing skills to the test against other players in a real-time, online experience. Race to complete a phrase before your opponent to deal damage and eventually defeat your opposition.

Check it out here!

Contributors

Joseph Nguyen GitHub | LinkedIn

Moses Kim GitHub | LinkedIn

Solomon Jin GitHub | LinkedIn

Get Started

If you would like to develop this game yourself, here are steps you'll need to take to get started.

1. Download Node.js.
2. Clone the type-fighter repository.
3. Open the terminal to the type-fighter repository.
4. Run the command npm install to download the necessary npm packages.
5. Run the command cp .env.example .env to create a .env file for the application.
6. In the .env file, change the TOKEN_SECRET and COOKIE_SECRET to suitable values.
7. In the .env file, change the DATABASE_URL at changeMe to typeFighter.
8. Run the command sudo service postgresql status to see if postgresql is running.
9. If postgresql is not running, run the command sudo service postgresql start.
10. Run the command createdb typeFighter to instantiate the database.
11. Run the command npm run db:import to import the schema and initial data.
12. Run the command npm run dev to start the server and run the client as a live server.
13. View the client in the browser at localport:3000.
14. To view the database on pgweb, open another terminal and run the command pgweb --db=<insert DATABASE_URL's changeMe from .env>; then, open the browser to localhost:8081.