Quiz Journey

Introduction

Quizzing turned into fun, this application is to make education topics fun for learning through a game for students.

This app runs on express, express-handlebars, mysql2, and sequelize Node.js modules, along with many others.

Live Demo

Installation

Note.js v13+ and MySQL v8+ are required in order to run this script.

1. Download or clone this repository into your local computer.
2. Log into your MySQL server and run the SQL files ./database/schema.sql, ./database/locations.sql and ./database/seeds.sql to initialize the database.
3. In your terminal, browse to the folder and run npm install --production.
4. Create a .env file into the root folder with your own credentials so the app can connect to your MySQL server. Use this template to help get your app going:

DB_USER=root
DB_PASSWORD=
DB_NAME=quiz_journey
DB_HOST=localhost

Usage

1. In your terminal, run the script with the command npm start or node server.js. This will run a local server that hosts the web app on port 8080.
2. Visit http://localhost:8080 to access the web app.
3. Start a new game, registering with your name.
4. Add a character.
5. Click on character to begin your journey!

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