5/10/16
What up, my glip-glops,
Here's how to run the code I've written and also how to futz with it.
- Get npm, node.js's package manager which makes it way easier to grab more code (like this project's dependencies) whenever you have a mind to.
- Install this project's dependencies with
cd path/to/project/ && npm install. - Start the code with
node main.js - Open a web browser and set the URL to 127.0.0.1:80. You should load a table giving the current score of a game between all teams starting out at 60 ppoints each.
So Express is a web application framework based on node.js, and we use it for all of the web host stuff: it runs the web server, and listens for http requests, and serves content when called upon to do so. The content it serves is created with Pug (formerly known as Jade, which is why all its documentation is at jade-lang.com), which is a template engine that you can give JS objects to and that will spit out HTML you can display based on the properties of the object.
(Still not sure what needs a lot of explanation and what doesn't. I'll update this section as it becomes clear what is unclear.)
We need a way to push score updates to the server. At first, this can just be a button on the scoreboard view, but eventually it should be its own view, which should be able to pull typical achievement scores by category from the server.The scoreboard view should automatically update its table whenever the server receives a score update. How will the scoreboard, which is a client, know when the server has received new data? Maybe the server should keep track of everyone displaying the scoreboard (can be done) and fire an event at them with the necessary data in?
I'm going to be redesigning this baby, so stay tuned!
We are having another Harry Potter Party this year, so we gotta keep House Points. Ammmarite?
Tooodaloo -- Arely
