#Hangman in AngularJS and Node.js

##Synopsis The intention of this project was to write a Hangman game as a Web application, in order to learn AngularJS and Node.js. Although this application is still a work in progress, the game can be played now (see below). More detail on continuing work can be found in the Next Steps portion of this README.

Click here to learn more about the Hangman game. Click here to play the Hangman game.

##Motivation This project originally constituted the technical portion of an interview process, and proved to be a great way to learn AngularJS and Node.js.

##Rules

• When the game is started, the player is represented with an empty field for each letter in the word.
• When the player guesses a letter correctly, each field that represents that letter is filled with the letter.
• When the player guesses a letter incorrectly, a piece of a gallows with a hanging man is drawn.
• After 10 incorrect guesses, the game is over and the player lost.
• Thus, there should be 10 different states of the gallows to be drawn.
• If all fields are filled with their letter before 10 incorrect guesses, the player has won the game.

##Technical Requirements

• Server/client based with the client being the browser
• Client implemented with AngularJS
• Server implemented with NodeJS
• Business logic executed on the server (so nobody can cheat)
• Allow for keeping simple statistics (games won/lost)
• Game is self-contained
• Game must scale to millions of users

##Next Steps Building this application has been a learning experience, and there is still progress to be made to complete the project in full. Other work to be done includes:

• Allow for simple statistics (games won/lost):
• This will be achieved through local storage (rather than through the use of database).
• Game is self-contained:
• Right now, the application uses CDN paths within the HTML. In the future, these files would be served locally.
• Game must scale to millions of users:
• Since I don’t plan on using a database, this application could put behind a load balancer and scaled horizontally. This would allow the application to scale to any size without overwhelming a database.

##Installation One can play the game here. Alternatively, one can clone the Master branch and run nodemon bin/www from the directory within the terminal.

##Contributors This application was written by Kira Pilot.