shreyansk2000 / caho

An online Cards Against Humanity service

Intro

Hi there! My name is Shreyans Kulshrestha. I'm a recent graduate from the University of British Columbia, where I studied Computer Engineering. Most of my programming experience stems from my course work but I have a couple of personal projects sprinked in here and there. Most recently - CAHO.

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Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of the technologies and platforms I have worked with, roughly in descending order of experience with them

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caho's Issues

Migrate to TS

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There are a lot of ways to run into problems without strong typing. Preferably all of the code will be migrated to TypeScript.
The goals of this change are:

• Change all JS code to TS
• Update dependencies where possible and leverage newer usage
• Reorganize directory structure and file placement
• Add some automatic style checking

Find a better way to load card information

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Currently, prompt and response cards are loaded from a giant 15k line-long JSON file. This means that we keep that information cached in server memory. This is terribly inefficient. It might be worth looking into streaming information from the file or creating a local database to be able to query and read the card information.

Action items (for now):

• Investigate JSONStream

Investigate alternatives to websockets

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WebSockets may not be scalable for a very large number of simultaneous connections. From my understanding, maintaining these connections can be resource-heavy for the server. This is not a required change per se, just something I want to look into more to understand if there are other "real-time" alternatives.

Make UI mobile friendly

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Currently, the website is simply not usable on mobile. We need to be able to interact with the game in a mobile browser.
Goals:

• Create a usable mobile view