Project Description

You will be provided with the desktop version of a single player blackjack app. Your job will be to expand the current functionality to support a player and a dealer. You will also add a scoreboard that tracks wins, losses, and pushes. A mockup of the final version is provider here

• Make it match the provided mockup which includes mobile version.
• Add UI components to show the dealer's hand. When the hand is initially dealt, the dealer should have one card showing and one card face down. When it is the dealer's turn, all cards should be shown.
• Add a scoreboard that tracks the wins, losses, and pushes for the player
• Make API calls to load scoreboard data & save scores

API Documentation

Score

To get the current score

Request

GET /api/score

Response

{
    player: 1,
    dealer: 2,
    push: 0
}

Update Score

To update the score

Request

POST /api/score

Post body

{
    result: 'player' | 'dealer' | 'push';
}

Response

{
    player: 1,
    dealer: 2,
    push: 0
}

Blackjack Rules For This Application

Each player is dealt two cards. The dealer will have one card showing and one card face down. The value of cards two through ten is their pip value (2 through 10). Face cards (Jack, Queen, and King) are all worth ten. Aces can be worth one or eleven. A hand's value is the sum of the card values.

Once the player hand is finished, it's the dealer's turn. The dealer hand will not be completed if the player has busted or received a blackjack. The dealer then reveals the hidden card and must hit until the cards total up to 17 points. At 17 points or higher the dealer must stay. You are betting that you have a better hand than the dealer. The better hand is the hand where the sum of the card values is closer to 21 without exceeding 21. The detailed outcome of the hand follows:

• If the player is dealt an Ace and a ten-value card (called a "blackjack" or "natural"), and the dealer does not, the player wins
• If the player exceeds a sum of 21 ("busts"), the player loses
• If the dealer exceeds 21 ("busts") and the player does not, the player wins.
• If the player attains a final sum higher than the dealer and does not bust, the player wins.
• If both dealer and player receive a blackjack or any other hands with the same sum called a "push", no one wins.

Deliverables

• import the exercise repository to your personal Github account using github's import tool import this url: https://github.com/FieldLevel/frontend-exercise-blackjack
• complete the exercise
• invite our github user "fl-codereview" to be a collaborator on the repository
• create a pull request against your Github repository
• let us(your interview coordinator) know when you are ready to review

How To Run

Install project dependencies

npm install

Start the API server

npm run server

Start the web application

npm run start

To run the test suite

npm run test