This is the git repo for the back end of the Quizzly app. The app's front end can be found at this repo: quizzly-frontend.
Quizzly was created by Jason Ermer. The project was inspired by and emulates Kahoot! and was completed as part of the Springboard Software Engineering Career Track.
The logo is artificial intelligence by Lord Berandas, available from game-icons.net and used under a CC-BY 3.0 license.
Kahoot! is an online platform for creating and playing learning games (website, wiki). Creators, typically teachers, register with Kahoot! and build multiple-choice quizzes through a web interface. Players, typically students, access Kahoot! quizzes via a web browser.
This project, Quizzly, implements a subset of Kahoot! functionality.
The quiz-maker interface allows users to create, edit, and publish multiple-choice quizzes. The quiz-taker interface allows users to browse published quizzes, take quizzes, and keep a log of their quiz scores.
Quizzly has a React frontend, a Node/Express backend with a Postgres database (schema shown below).
Very little user data will be stored apart from username, email, and password. However, given that my platform caters to teachers and students, I must look into data security considerations associated with students under 13 years of age, in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Areas of future back end development include:
- Allow question types other than multiple choice
- Allow questions to have time limits
In the project directory:
- Execute
npm installto install packages and dependencies. - Execute
psql < quizzly.sqlto create, set-up, and seed the production databasequizzly, and the testing databasequizzly-test. - To launch the back end, execute
npm start. - To run tests, execute
npm test.