Game Marketplace

Simple Flask API demonstrating the use of a quicksort algorithm. The application allows users to add games to a leaderboard, which will be sorted by their rating. The quicksort sorts the game from highest to lowest. The user can also edit and delete existing entries.

Requirements

Python 3.7 and above

Setting up the Enviroments

You should install a virtual enviroment and conifgure it to run on Python 3.

To install your virtual environment:

python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

To create your virtual environment:

virtualenv venv

To run your virtual environment, type in the command line:

source venv/bin/activate

You will also need to install the requirements.txt file to your virtual environment on the first run. You can do this by running the following command when your environment is activated.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

To start the application, you can then run.

$ python run.py

It will run on Port 8080.

Click or copy and paste http://0.0.0.0:8080 into your browser, which will direct you to the home page of the application.

If you wish to close your enviroment, type in:

deactivate

Using the Game Marketplace

You can view the current leaderboard by navigating to http://localhost:8080/show_games, where you can update and delete the entries.

You can add a new entry by using the form in http://localhost:8080/add_game.