wordder

Create a word ladder by changing 1 letter at a time and creating valid words along the way. Can you get it the minimum amount of steps?

Try me here -> playwordder.com

Features:

-Play 2022's hottest new game! No not wordle....WORDDER!
-Create a word ladder with a starting word traversing to a ending word in as few steps possible.
-Hotter! or Colder! prompts will help you out along the way. 
-Login with Google, Facebook or a custom login to keep track of your stats. 
-Customize what words you can play with the address bar ex. playwordder.com/trap/clap
-Word bank of over 2000 vetted words so you don't run into a nightmare scenario!
-Hosted on my own domain https://www.playwordder.com with custom SSL certificate I painstakingly implemented instead of using Heroku's like I should have :D

Demonstrated Skills:

-Uses breadth first search on a graph to traverse word lists and created shortest path
-Token Authentication with JWT library for 1-hour login sessions.
-Oauth login with Google and Facebook sign in.
-Custom login and user profile and statistics tracked in MongoDB database. 
-Bcrypt library used to salt and has passwords for latest security protocals. 
-Custom SSL certificate to enable HTTTPS routing
-Uses React Redux to handle overall state of words and guesses. 
-Uses React Router to control the links and flow of multiple webpages in the site.
-Uses React Hooks like useState, useReducer, and useEffect to handle initialization and life cycle methods.
-Uses the create-react-app to start the backbone of this project.
-Uses React.js to handle all of the frontend using states, props and components with function based components.
-Styled with classic CSS with the beautiful design of an electrical engineer with the fashion sense of a lawn mower. 

Future Ways to Improve:

-Plan to update the main UI to have individual boxes similar to wordle
-Daily Wordder that updates every 24hours

Overall project time: ~300 hours Date Completed: TBA

-Gary Arzumanyan

Look how fun it is in GIF form!