Quiz web app

Where you can create your own quizzes, play in numerous of quizzes and compare your statistics with others in the Leaderboard of each challenge.

Purpose

This project was made as part of the weekly programming challenge hosted by DevJam. The project was made for learning purposes.

What I learned

Once again I learned lots of new things. For the first time I used Bootstrap. I also learned how to order database query in sqlalchemy.

Live Demo

Quiz page: Leaderboard page

About the Challenge

🛠 Difficulty Level (of user stories): Beginner

📅 Start: December 10th
📅 Deadline: December 16th 16:00 (4PM) GMT

📝 Project Description

Practice and test your knowledge by answering questions in a quiz application. As a developer you can create a quiz application for testing coding skills of other developers. (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, etc...)

📑User Stories

• ✔️ User can start the quiz by pressing a button.
• ✔️ User can see a question with 4 possible answers
• ✔️ After selecting an answer, display the next question to the User. Do this until the quiz is finished
• At the end, the User can see the following statistics:
  • ✔️ Time it took to finish the quiz
  • ✔️ How many correct answers did he get
  • ✔️ A message showing if he passed or failed the quiz

🌟 Bonus features

• ✔️ User can share the result of a quiz on social media
• ✔️ Add multiple quizzes to the application. User can select which one to take
• ✔️ User can create an account
• ❌ User have all the scores saved in his dashboard. User can complete a quiz multiple times
• ✔️ User can create their own quizzes

✨ Custom features (not part of the challenge)

• ✔️ Leaderboard for every challenge

Tech

The app is written in python using Flaks-library. Frontend is written in html5, css and vanilla js. Backend uses Flask sqlalchemy and flask-login. App is deployed in docker container in virtual private server.

Frameworks and libraries:

• Flask - Micro web framework written in python.
• Flask-Socketio - Flask-SocketIO gives Flask applications access to low latency bi-directional communications between the clients and the server.
• Flask-login - Flask-Login provides user session management for Flask.

Installation and running

This app requires python 3.7+ to run.

Clone git repo

git clone https://github.com/JesperKauppinen/quizapp.git

After cloning or downloading this git repo, install required python libraries

pip install -r requirements.txt

Add environment variables that are used in config.py.

run app.py

python app.py

Deployment

Deploy using docker

• Fill secrets in Dockerfile.
• For database, you need sql database like MariaDB. You can also use sqlite database by removing DATABASE_URL in Dockerfile.
• You can generate docker image using command docker image build -t quizapp . in content root directory (projects/quizapp).
• You can start docker container with command docker run -d -p PORT:80 quizapp, fill PORT with the port you want the app run.

Contribute?

Want to contribute? Awesome!
This project was part of weekly challenges hosted by DevJam and won't be updated. Maybe you would like to work with us, hit me up and let's talk. You can also keep working on this project yourself.

Credits

• Scoreboard design - Leaderboard design
• Card design - Cars design
• Boostrap - Some frontend elements like grids.
• Fontawesome - Icons

License

MIT License