Note: this is currently a work in progress.
This is an app for training reaction time. The backend consists of a test-driven Rails app (see the spec folder) with a few RESTful endpoints. The frontend uses React and the Flux architecture through Marty. It also uses React Router for navigation. The frontend was not test-driven as I was still learning the ins and outs of the technologies. However, I plan to add full test coverage.
The backend and frontend are clearly demarcated such that the frontend is a
fully single-page app that makes requests to the backend for data and to update
data. This is also true for the authentication scheme. For instance, the
frontend will send a user's credentials (username and password) to the session
endpoint to request a session_token. The frontend then takes this token, sets
it as a cookie, and uses it in every subsequent request by putting it into a
header. The backend then uses this header to verify users.
To set up the app, you will need to do a bundle install to get the gem
dependencies and an npm install to get the npm packages for the frontend. You
will also need to run npm run build to build bundle.js. Migrate the
database, start the Rails server, and you'll be good to go.