This project is about routing with Node.js/Express.js web framework:

• Setting up a server
• create an api that can handle routes
• HTTP and methods
• rendering to a template
• responsive basic front end UI with HTML/CSS/Pug template and Javascript/jQuery

To run the app: nodemon server Open browser and type in... http://0.0.0.0/scenarios

Sent request to test the response on port 8080

• GET /scenarios where the scenarios are the top level key in scenarios.json

response:

{
  "scenarios": [
    "BandersGuru"
  ]
}

• POST /game which allows to start a game given a scenario name as JSON and returns the ID of a game.

response:

{
  "id": "ec6a7bd0-4f45-11e9-9f9d-2dcc58927dae",
  "scenario": "BandersGuru",
  "currentStep": "initial"
}

• GET /game/:id which allows one to get a game by ID.

response:

{
  "id": "derp",
  "scenario": "BandersGuru",
  "currentStep": "initial",
  "choices": [
    {
      "line": "Enter the office"
    },
    {
      "line": "Run away in the opposite direction"
    }
  ]
}

• POST /game/:id which allows one to choose one of the possible answer to a question and returns the following one, given the index of the selected answer. (ie: initial -> select choice @index 1 ->node#1 and so on..)

payload:

{
    "choiceIndex": 0
}

response:

{
  "id": "derp",
  "scenario": "BandersGuru",
  "currentStep": "1",
  "choices": [
    {
      "line": "Start doing the backpack-kid dance to impress them."
    },
    {
      "line": "Tell them that Android is clearly better than Apple and that whoever would argue the contrary is completely insane."
    },
    {
      "line": "Say \" Hi! I'm #name#."
    }
  ]
}

Heindrick Cheung