This project implement the Tic Tac Toe, human vs human turn-based, game using Angular.js (with a couple of modules) and Bootstrap.

To run the game download or clone the repository, then run

yarn install

to install all the require libraries, then start the server (powered by the Angular-CLI) by running

ng serve

Game should be available on http://localhost:4200 after a few seconds and look as the image below:

N.B. The Angular-CLI require Node.js. The Project is tested only with version v7.0.0.

Project is based on 4 elements:

• App Component initialize the game and handle player's moves updating the UI accordingly.
• Game Service implement logic for initialize the game and decide if someone wins
• Block modelize a single checkbox of the game grid
• Players modelize the users that play the game one after the other

A few days ago I applied for a Full MEAN Stack developer position at Cubeyou. After a quick chat with recruiter, I received an assignment from Cubeyou's CTO: implement the Tic Tac Toe game as single page application.

My first move was to Google about the game implementation in Javascript. Its a pretty common demo app so I was able to find a tons of already implemented version.

jQuery would have been an easy move. I could implement all the logic in a single HTML file and ship it. Easy but I wouldn't learn anything new.

React would have been my choice. I like the project and, together with Redux, enable developers to implement beautiful application with a pure functional style. Anyway I already use it at my current job and Cubeyou is working on the MEAN stack so my choice goes to Angular.

I never implemented an Angular application from scratch and the Angular-CLI was a beautiful discovery. I followed a tutorial that implement a raw version of the interface and the logic. Then I removed everything I didn't need, redesign the UI and refactor the code.

The result wasn't impressive but works quite well.