Story Squad turns “reluctant readers” into authors and illustrators through a collaborative world-building game.
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How the App should work - A primer for devs
Labs27 Frontend video
Labs28 Progress/Starting point video
Labs27 Backend video
Labs26 Product Roadmap
UX Design
Architecture Layout
Welcome to Story Squad! We're an interactive learning platform targeted at grade school children, and we help build reading comprehension as well as artistic, writing, and analytical/critical thinking skills through weekly competitions.
Each week features a new chapter in an exciting novel, written and serialized specifically for Story Squad by author and educator Graig Peterson. Children are provided with prompts based on the chapter they've just read, and participants are then divided into teams of two. Students create art and fanfiction to match the prompt, before going head to head in a bracket-style tournament.
In addition to growing their literary and artistic skills, students learn team building and critical thinking skills through a unique voting system, where each child must weight their own work against their teammate in order to increase their odds of winning. Badges and points incentivize winning and encourage participation.
Story Squad is a paid service; parents are required to create the account for their children and pay a monthly subscription fee in order for their children to compete. This brings the platform into compliance with COPPA and ensures a long future for the project.
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- A Custom, Serialized Novel geared toward children in 3rd-6th grade
- Parental Controls which allow parents to add and customize child accounts
React
- First Class Performance with Virtual DOM
- Lightweight Library resulting in low bundle size/improved load times
- Easy cross-platform development via progressive web app
- Simple routing
Ant Design
- A set of high-quality React components out of the box
- Powerful theme customization
- Whole package of design resources and development tools
React Plotly
- Easy to use to embed D3 charts
- This React component takes the chart type, data and styling as Plotyly.JSON in its data and layout props, then draws the chart using Plotly.js.
Redux state management
- Redux helps you write applications that behave consistently,
- Centrilize your application's state and logic
- The Redux DevTools make it easy to trace bugs
Backend built using:
Express
- Built in routing and middleware
- Useful add-ons such as helmet and CORS
Swagger Editor Documentation
- Defines and documents RESTful APIs
JSON Web Tokens are an industry standard authentication solution. Paired with BCrypt for hashing passwords, this allows secure local password authentication without reliance on third party solutions.
In order for the app to function correctly, the user must set up their own environment variables. There should be a .env file containing the following:
* BROWSER=none
* REACT_APP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:3000
Jest
- Simple testing
- Mocking of dependencies
- Promotes consistent unit testing
Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/Lambda-School-Labs/story-squad-fe-b.git
cd story-squad-fe-b/
Install Dependencies
npm install
Run Test
npm test
Clone and download the backend
Follow backend set up guides
Run the application locally
npm dev
* build - creates a build of the application
* dev - runs the development server
* test - runs tests as defined in *.spec.ts files
* lint - format and correct errors with prettier
When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue, email, or any other method with the owners of this repository before making a change.
Please note we have a code of conduct. Please follow it in all your interactions with the project.
Check this document from labs28 for what's been done/worked on, and what needs to be done. This will give you a good idea on where to start with your contributions. IMPORTANT! Please update for the benefit of future developers.
If you are having an issue with the existing project code, please submit a bug report under the following guidelines:
- Check first to see if your issue has already been reported.
- Check to see if the issue has recently been fixed by attempting to reproduce the issue using the latest master branch in the repository.
- Create a live example of the problem.
- Submit a detailed bug report including your environment & browser, steps to reproduce the issue, actual and expected outcomes, where you believe the issue is originating from, and any potential solutions you have considered.
We would love to hear from you about new features which would improve this app and further the aims of our project. Please provide as much detail and information as possible to show us why you think your new feature should be implemented.
If you have developed a patch, bug fix, or new feature that would improve this app, please submit a pull request. It is best to communicate your ideas with the developers first before investing a great deal of time into a pull request to ensure that it will mesh smoothly with the project.
Remember that this project is licensed under the MIT license, and by submitting a pull request, you agree that your work will be, too.
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Update the README.md with details of changes to the interface, including new plist variables, exposed ports, useful file locations and container parameters.
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Ensure that your code conforms to our existing code conventions and test coverage.
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Include the relevant issue number, if applicable.
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You may merge the Pull Request in once you have the sign-off of two other developers, or if you do not have permission to do that, you may request the second reviewer to merge it for you.
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Please see Labs Gitflow for proper flow on all your pull requests.
See Backend Documentation for details on the backend of our project.
