Quiz-game

HIPPOCAMPUS - A quiz application with React.js,Bootstrap for frontend, Golang for backend- gin and gorm libraries.

Go

Setting up

• For Ubuntu: Look here
• For MacOS: Look here
• Optional: If you want to have your executables to be stored in bin, add the following to your .bashrc:

              export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin

• Installing third party packages; use go get. An example:-

        go get -u -v gopkg.in/mgo.v2

• You'll have to install the packages before you run the code. Packages used in this project -

              go get -u -v github.com/gin-gonic/gin
              go get -u -v github.com/jinzhu/gorm
              go get -u -v github.com/jinzhu/gorm/dialects/sqlite
              go get -u -v github.com/gin-contrib/cors

• To run a program:-

              go run file.go

React

Setting up

• First, install node. Then install yarn.
• Ubuntu:

              curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
              sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
              npm install -g yarn

• MacOS:

              brew install node
              npm install -g yarn

• In the app I've made, make sure you run npm install or just yarn inside the react-app folder. This command automatically looks at the package.json file and installs the required packages into the node_modules folder.
• You can run the app by running yarn start

Running the application-

• Run this command inside the Hippocampus/react-app folder

             npm install
             yarn start

• On a separate terminal instance run this in the Hippocampus/go folder

            go run CRUD.go

• Go to localhost:3000 to use the application

Functionalities-

Homepage:

Signed out

Logged in

Users list

Genres

Quizzes under a genre

Leaderboard under a genre

Quiz section

Create a quiz (admin)

Create a new question (admin)

Delete a user (admin)