pallavipsap / crossword-puzzle-react

Crossword puzzle built with React and Rails

Crossword Puzzle

A crossword puzzle built with React and Rails | The Back End | Demo

App description

• This is an application that generates crosswords puzzles. It does this by randomly picking a pre-generated crossword from its Rails back end. The database currently contains 30 crossword puzzles. Ideally, I would've liked the database to have at least a hundred different crosswords, but in order to fit on Heroku I had to limit it to 30.
• I pulled all clues and answers from a Jeopardy API. The database currently has has 6065 words.
• I wanted users to have the ability to keep track of their scores. To create this feature I built fully functioning user authentication (this was obviously a lot more than was necessary to build this feature, I partly used this opportunity to get more comfortable with user auth using JSON web tokens.)
• I added a top five users board (I think there's only three users in the db currently). In order to keep track of this, I had to create a functionality that sends a signal to the backend to increment up a user's score every time a user completes a crossword.

Clone & run application

Clone front end repo:

git clone [email protected]:zluo16/crossword-puzzle-react.git

Clone back end repo:

git clone [email protected]:zluo16/crossword-puzzle-api.git

Install & run front end:

npm install && npm start

Install & run back end:

bundle install && rails s