robertshaw87 / mystery-fruit

My word guess game re-imagined in Node. Now with 100% more fruit!

Mystery-Fruit

My word guess game re-imagined in Node. Now with 100% more fruit!

Getting Started

Download the repository. Then, navigate to the folder and run install from your node package manager. If everything is installed, when you run index.js, you should get a screen like this:

Just follow the on screen instructions to start discovering the mystery fruit! How many can you get right?

Prerequisites

You must have node installed in your terminal with support for the Node Package Manager.

Installing

Node.js Website

Navigate to the Node.js website and follow the instructions to install Node. Then navigate to the project folder in your terminal.

/.../Mystery-Fruit/

Within that folder, run

npm install

Now, you're ready to play! Just run

node index.js

Built With

• Javascript - The scripting language used

• Node.js - JavaScript runtime

• Node File System - Interact with the file system

• Node Package Manager - Package manager for JavaScript and Node

• Inquirer - Command line user interface

Challenges

I focused on playing around with Constructors and reducing Global Variables in this project. Unlike my first word guess game, I divied up the reponsibilities for functionality between several objects and store the relevant data within them.

This lead to much more modular and compartimentalized code that's easy to understand in addition to not having messy global variables floating around.

I handled words in my dictionary having spaces, apostrophes, and other non-alphabet characters by having them default to showing. In the end, I ended up not using that functionality, but the potential is there for future iterations.

Authors

• Robert Shaw - Initial work - robertshaw87