toyblocks / toyblocks

ToyBlocks ist ein webbasiertes Lernspiel für Studierende des Fachbereichs Architektur an der TU Darmstadt.

ToyBlocks

ToyBlocks ist ein webbasiertes Lernspiel für Studierende des Fachbereichs Architektur, das im Rahmen des Basiskurses Architekturgeschichte (Modul 312) als interdisziplinäres Konzept zwischen den Fachbereichen Architektur und Informatik der TU Darmstadt entstanden ist.

ToyBlocks is an E-learning webgame for students from the Fachbereich Architektur of TU Darmstadt. It is used in the entry class Architekturgeschichte (Modul 313, eng. architecture history) and was created as an interdisciplinary concept between Fachbereich Architektur and Fachbereich Informatik.

It is currently hosted at https://toyblocks.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de/.

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Getting Started

To install the project and get it running you need to install the packages, restore the mongodb database and run the project. Mongod service should be running the background.

npm install
npx bower install
npx grunt init
mongorestore --db toyblocks toyblocks_database_demo/toydemo
npm start

Documentation

A documentation (in german) for developers can be found under DOCUMENTATION.md.

License

This project is under the MIT License which can be found under LICENSE.

Team

Project Leaders:

• Marion Bolder-Boos
• Gabriel Dette
• Franziska Lang
• Stefanie Müller

Developers:

• Simon Bugert
• Mansur Iqbal
• Steven Lamarr Reynolds
• Andrej Tretjakow

toyblocks's Issues

Migrate project to current web standards

Issue to track current updating progress.

• critical tasks
  • fix security bugs
  • fix warnings
  • update packages
• major tasks
  • replace Bower with npm
  • add webpack
  • add TypeScript
  • replace dust template system with React
  • rewrite server backend
• minor tasks
  • replace bootstrap
  • add ESLint

Update sso url to new service

In line

toyblocks/controllers/Base.js

Line 296 in d7514ff

host: 'sso.tu-darmstadt.de',

the following url should be updated: http://login.tu-darmstadt.de/

See also ref https://www.aai.dfn.de/fileadmin/metadata/dfn-aai-local-312-metadata.xml for new metadata.

update project to 2019

Issue to track current undertaking to update project to keep it running.

• update Package Versions
  • npm dependencies
  • grunt dependencies
  • bower dependencies
  • mongodb
  • express
• fix Deprecation Warnings
  • mongodb
  • node http
• update SSO
• force https
  • fix node-http-proxy
• update certificates
• ...?

fix issues - sprint 3

• fix express deprecated req.param(name)
• fix deprecated @eq helper in dust frontend
• fix eslint errors
• tests?
• check todos
• mongodb6
  • all games
  • login
  • ency
  • moderation
  • admin charts
  • admin area
• test app
  • all games
  • login
  • ency
  • moderation
  • admin charts
  • admin area
• update to production