This is a Codecademy project designed to help us practice creating a simple JavaScript program to run on Node.js, use Git and GitHub to track version changes and host the project online.
We were asked to create a program that creates random messages everytime the user runs it. The theme I chose to create was a random piece of transfer advice for Fantasy Premier League (FPL).
Below is an example of output from the transfer advice generator.
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- Git and GitHub
Setup is easy! Simply download this repo and run using Node.js from the command line. There are no further dependencies.
The project is used to test and demonstrate our knowledge of some simple JavaScript concepts. Within my code, I have demonstrated usage of:
- Importing data from a seperate JSON file using
require(). - Iterating across a large array of objects with
.forEach(), accessing a certain property and using theswitchstatement to help restructure the data. - Selecting random indexes in arrays with
Math.floor(Math.random()). - Organising my code for others to easily follow by:
- Spliting code into easy to follow chunks and functions.
- Extensively, coherently commenting throughout.
- Further random advice, such as:
- When to make the transfer, i.e. on which game-week.
- When to captain the player they are transfering in.
- Advice on when to use their chips (free-hits, triple captain, bench-boost, wildcard).
- User inputs their current FPL team:
- Then the program cross-references the random message with the user's team to exclude recommending a player they already have.
- Program looks at the the user's team and the points assosciated with each player/position, and therefore selects an appropriate message whether it consider's their team to be good/average/bad. I.e. if the team has a below-average total points for their midfield, recommend transfering in a midfielder with a higher.