courier-new / pilon

Pi learning game!

Pilon π

The Pi learning game!

Test your memory and learn as many digits of Pi as your heart desires! You'll never use them, but reciting Pi is a great party trick. Or so I've heard from people who don't spend all their free time developing Pi memory games and actually attend parties.

My project is live on Netlify!

And you can go play it here!

Motivation

From elementary school through high school I loved memorizing random numbers like Pi and composing songs out of their many wonderful digits with my friends. At my peak I had a full 314 digits of Pi memorized! Unfortunately, I have since dropped digits... In celebration of Pi Day (3/14/2020) and in an effort to relearn the digits I have lost, I built this app to retrain my memory!

From a technical standpoint, I wanted to use this as an opportunity to test styled-components integration with TypeScript as well as demonstrate for myself how well the React Context API replaces the need for Redux. This is also my first project leveraging Netlify.

I may continue to add little features here in there, but the MVP game portion of the app is complete!

Development

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

In the project directory, you can run:

yarn start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

yarn test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

yarn build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

yarn lint

Lints the app with ESLint.