card-deck
card-deck
May 17 EOD
Can create a game, join it, and start it.
Need to work on sharing game rounds and making that logic work on the backend
previous notes
Ok, hitting api/games/create does make a connection to firebase and can access the api there.
Created a google service account via https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/serviceaccounts/create?authuser=0&project=cards-api-1c66e&supportedpurview=project and encoded the JSON file as:
- encodeURI(JSON.stringify(certJSON))
- stored the encoded string as FIREBASE_ADMIN_JSON
- It is decoded in the firebase.js util
- This allows the API to make changes to the FB database without needing to authenticate a specific user
- Apparently user auth is needed only if we want to have the client modify (or query?) the FB firestore
Firebase usage:
- the Firestore: https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project/cards-api-1c66e/database/firestore/data~2Fusers~2Falovelace2
Notes
API endpoints:
- findOrCreateGame
- if given a shortId, finds or creates a game with that short id
- if no short id, generates one and then creates the game
- joinGame
- given a username and client-side-generated user id, joins the user to the game. finds or creates a player record with that username and id
- startGame
- marks a game as "started" — stop accepting new players
How to distribute cards to the players? Starting the game should create and shuffle a deck.
Players should see their cards, and see the deck status, and see other players card counts.
Players should be able to pass a card(s).
Players should be able to play a card.
The game should enforce when a player can take an action, but it seems like it would be ok as a first step to allow anyone to play at any time, and enforce the rules out-of-band.