Wordle Remade

A re-creation of wordle designed to be as scalable and future proof as possible for a fun side project :)

Preface

I created this as a platform to refresh my fullstack skills in regards to web development. I figured a wordle recreation would be a good oppurtunity to do so. I designed this with a frontend service that delivers the to the client and an api service which stays hidden from public view. Im using this + MongoDB in order to make it as "future-proof" as possible in terms of adding features such as authentication and leaderboards down the line etc.

In each respective folder there is a settings.json file which points the frontend to the api and the api to mongodb etc. To run each respectively run the "NPM START" script in each package.

Infrastructure Used

• NodeJS

• Express

• MongoDB

• EJS

• Bootstrap

• Animate.css

• Canvas-Confetti

• simple-keyboard

Interaction Flow

Frontend Endpoint Reference

Index

  GET /

Check Word

  POST /check

Body Form Data	Type	Description
attempt	string	Required. A string to check against the daily word.

Contacts the api's check endpoint with the word supplied by the user then responds to our client. This is to keep communication to our api unavailable to the public.

Backend Endpoint Reference

Index

  GET /

Healthcheck

  GET /healthcheck

Returns status 200 on successful request

Generate

  GET /generate

Returns JSON of generated word

Check Word

  POST /check

Body Form Data	Type	Description
attempt	string	Required. A string to check against the daily word.

Returns JSON of word letter statuses.

E.G. Submitting test results in { [ 1, 2, 0, 2] } if daily word is rent

Codes are as follows

0 - Letter is not in word
1 - Letter is in word, not in that position
2 - Letter is in word, and is in that position

Backend Routines

Daily there is a cronjob which generates a new random word and stores it to the database.

Authors

• @Gage Pielsticker