Hi all and welcome to the GitHub Repo for Mario Verde. This project is designed to be a matchmaking service for those looking for someone to play with. This repos is for the front end of Mario-Verde. For the back end please visit https://github.com/freef/mario-verde-api the deployed api is available at https://sleepy-citadel-92470.herokuapp.com/
We all know that games are more fun when played together, but random matchmaing provides limited tools for making new friends and that the built in tools for meeting peeople seem to bring out the worst in everyone. This tool aims to make it easier to play together. On Mario Verde players can post events, each with a title, description, time, and some contact info. Players can then reach out and make plans to play with each other.
Front end makes ajax requests to the API. the API is a RESTful API built on Ruby on Rails. It queries the database and returns a JSON. JavaScript parses the JSON and renders pieces of it on the page using handlebars. That HTML is stylized using bootstrap and custom SASS. Event listeners are attached with JQuery and page manipulation is handled by JavaScript
The biggest challenge in planning this project was deciding on what to make. My original idea was for a find a belay buddy site for climbers but I disliked how reliant that idea was on location, so I applied the same idea to online games. The service is geared more towards owners of a Nintendo Swithc and Tabletop gamers but will also be flexible enough for players on other platforms to make use of it.
Next I sketched out what this project would look like if I had infinite time to work on it. I wrote user stories, drew ERDs, listed database columns, and sketched out some rough wireframes. These tools gave me something to shoot for during my development process and provided a guide on what to work on next.
Afterwards, I took the plans for my dream event finder and began to remove anything and everything that wasn't absolutely necessary for this tool to function. With my newly paired down map I began working. My development process from this point has been entirely driven the requirments file.
I decided that it would be easier to tackle the back end first and design my front end application to work with my API. I generated two tables using Ruby on Rails and tested them with bash scripts. Once those routes were working I linked my users table to my events table and altered my rails controller to authenticate users before allowing them to make changes.
As a final step I created a very bare-bones website to ensure that i could successfuly use my website to make API calls.
After the raw technical functions were in place, I went back to my original user stories and began to write several more. these stories drove my development process and helped set my priorities as I developed the front end of this application.
This document will list planned improvements and will be the guiding doc for all future improvements. Please see that section for more information on my planning process.
- Check that the problem is a requirment
- Double check that its actually a requirement
- Read the error message
- Check for plurlalization/capitalization
- Check syntax
- Check if the code thats giving you trouble works somewhere else
- Simplify the code/process
- console log paramaters
- console log output
- try running code again
- Try do do it differently if none of the above worked and you still get the same error message
Current ERD
|users|-|-<|events|
Console Field is currently not able to be populated without introducing weirdness. Currently, this must be selected every time an event is altered which isn't great UI.
as a user I'd like to create an account so i can browse games as a user I'd like to log in so i can respond to events as a user I'd like to create an event to play with strangers online as a user I'd like to check and see if players have responded to my event as a user I'd like to sign up to "attend" an event hosted by another player so i can play games as a user I'd like to hide my email/discord id/nintendo id from the genral public as a user i'd like my email/discord id/nintendo ide to be visible to attendees or hosts for events i'm participating in as a user I'd like to be able to edit an event by clicking on it so i don't need to keep track of its ID as a user I'd like to be able to delete an event by clicking on it so i don't need to keep track of its ID as a user I'd like to have a consistent design across all elements of the page so i know how to anticipate the behavior of the site as a user i'd like to show a contact other than my email so that i don't get spam or harassing messages as a user i'd like to be able to change my discord id because its very easy to do so on the site.
- Meta
- find a better way to identify and catalog necessary UX improvements
- UI Improvements
Put each item in a boxCreate Nav BarAdd Color- allow users to hide their contact info
- Features
Pin the user's events to the topallow users to delete their events in by clicking a delete button related to that eventallow users to hide events they arent interested in attending- allow users to only display events based on a dropdown
- allow users to search for events by keyword
sort events by date- hide events with past dates
- allow users to sign up as an attendee for an event -DB Changes
- add column to users for profile
add column to users for discord idadd column to events for platform (xbox, pc, switch, playstation, tabletop)- create attendees table
- many to many relationship from events and users