GameGroup

• GameGroup is board game/game group management tool.
  • Board game management
    • Build collection
    • Track game sessions
    • Rank games
    • Build a wish list
  • GameGroup management
    • Build groups
    • Create sessions
    • Email group
    • Compare games
    • Vote on games

Project Status: In Development

GameGroup is currently in phase 1 of development. development schedule below.

• Phase 1:
  • Build out collection
    • Add
    • Remove
    • Update
  • Rank games
  • Search (using board-game-geek api)
• Phase 2:
  • Session tracking
  • Wish list
• Phase 3:
  • Backend implementation
  • Login functionality
• Phase 4:
  • Multi user login
  • Game groups
  • Game Sessions
• Phase 5:
  • Compare games
  • Sessions games
  • Vote on games
  • Email

Project Screen Shot(s)

Installation and Setup Instructions

• git clone
• npm install
• npm start

Reflection

This project was started during the last week of module 3 at Turing School of Software and Design. My goal was to create an app that could be used by game groups to steam-line the process of organizing gaming sessions and managing your board game collection.

• Learning goals:
  • Gain a better understanding of React, Redux and Router
  • Build out testing vocabulary
  • Use and external API
• Obstacles:
  • The API was in XML and had to be translated into JSON
  • Once parsed the information needed extensive scrubbing
  • Multiple API calls were needed to get the needed information
  • Slow API response
  • Local storage was used in lieu of a backend
• Tools:
  • React app boilerplate created by Brenna with express
  • Redux
  • Router
  • Redux

Resources

Links: * BoardGameGeek API