Slackr

An instant messaging web application

Built in

Backend: Python 3.7, Flask, Pipenv, PyTest, Coverage

Frontend: ReactJS, Material UI, Axios

Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Specification

Features

Authenticate Users

• Ability to login
• register if not registered
• log out
• reset password via email

Instant Messaging

• Groups chatrooms into channels
• Users can see a list of channels
• Create a channel, join a channel, invite someone else to a channel, and leave a channel
• Within a channel, ability to view all messages, view the members of the channel, and the details of the channel-
• Within a channel, ability to send a message now, or to send a message at a specified time in the future
• Within a channel, ability to edit, remove, pin, unpin, react, or unreact to a message
• Begin a "standup", which is an X minute period where users can send messages that at the end of the period will automatically be collated and summarised to all users

User Profiles

• View user anyone's user profile, and modify a user's own profile (name, email, handle, and profile photo)
• Search for messages based on a search string
• Modify a user's privileges: (MEMBER, OWNER)

Server Backups

• Persistant data that can be loaded after a server shutdown

Admin Priviledges

• support for slackr owners to remove users from slackr

Hangman

After a game of Hangman has been started any user in the channel can type /guess X where X is an individual letter. If that letter is contained in the word or phrase they're trying to guess, the app should indicate where it occurs. If it does not occur, more of the hangman is drawn. There is a lot of flexibility in how you achieve this. It can be done only by modifying the backend and relying on messages to communicate the state of the game (e.g. after making a guess, the "Hangman" posts a message with a drawing of the hangman in ASCII/emoji art). Alternatively you can modify the frontend, if you want to experiment with fancier graphics.

The app should use words and phrases from an external source, not just a small handful hardcoded into the app. One suitable source is /usr/share/dict/words available on Unix-based systems. Alternatively, the python wikiquote module is available via pip and can be used to retrieve quotes and phrases from Wikiquote.

Note that this part of the specification is deliberately open-ended. You're free to make your own creative choices in exactly how the game should work, as long as the end result is something that could be fairly described as Hangman.