azukiapp / sgdemo-pokemon-example

SendGrid demo using both Inbound Parse and Outbound Mail API

SendGrid Demo Spec

GET /game/:lifepoints

Should render the game window. Enemy should have full life when page is initially created. Else, should have the life everyone else sees.

Inbound Parse API will perform a POST to /game and this will emit to the frontend to create a mail animation which will attack the enemy. The subject will determine which id is being attacked. The FE will respond with a number which is the amount of damaged caused. This will then be replied to the original sender.

Hits will be 1-5 life points Last hit will get notified that killed the enemy and shall be awarded with something

This hacks uses nodejs, jade, html5 canvas, and of course SendGrid!

Development

Running locally with azk

To run it using azk just do:

$ cp .env.example .env

Change the environment variables inside .env and run:

$ azk start

Running on your machine

After changing the environment variables, start a local redis server:

$ redis-server

Then run your app:

$ npm start

You might also want to run ngrok to test your webhook. If you have it installed, open a new terminal and run:

$ ngrok 3000