josesaulguerrero/tic-tac-toe

This is a simple tic-tac-toe built with React.

Tic-Tac-Toe game

This is an amazing tic-tac-toe game where you can choose to play against a friend or against your computer 🤖. The computer uses the minimax algorithm to find the best move and way to play, so it's basically unbeatable 😎.

Table of contents

• Overview
• The challenge
• Screenshot
• Links
• My process
• Built with
• What I learned
• Continued development
• Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• Choose who they want to play against.
• See who won after the game is over.
• Restart the previous match after the game is over.
• Reset the game configuration.

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL
• Live site URL

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• Yarn - Node package manager
• Webpack - Module bundler
• Babel - JS code transpiler
• React - JS library
• Sass - For styles
• Workbox - For managing the cache and service workers
• react-app-rewired and customize-cra - These libraries modify the behavior of create-react-app and allow you to customize the webpack files. It must be used carefully because things can easily break.

What I learned

Building this project helped me learn to use and improve my knowledge and programming logic by:

• Using the minimax algorithm to make your machine unbeatable.
• Using React.Context to provide all the necessary functions.
• Using pre-processors such as Sass.
• Managing my service workers with Workbox.

Continued development

• To make the computer "smarter" I use the minimax algorithm, which basically makes it unbeatable.

• My stylesheets use Sass, a pre-processor that allows you to write cleaner CSS code and re-use your own style rules, so that you don't repeat yourself.

• I used CSS pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes to create interesting animations when an unmarked cell is hovered.

• To manage my service workers, I used Workbox, a set of libraries that google provides to help you covert your apps into PWAs that can be installed like a native app and work even when offline.

• Implemented the @media (hover: hover) {} CSS media query, which is used to detect if the user's device has a cursor, to add hover transitions.

Useful resources

• How to integrate Workbox in your React App - These videos were really helpful as they helped me integrate all the workbox libraries into my existing application.

• What is the minimax algorithm? - This article taught me what is the minimax algorithm and how it works.

• Creating a tic-tac-toe game with the minimax algorithm - This video helped me find out how I could create the minimax using JavaScript.

• How to create your own Minimax Algorithm - This article helped me create my own minimax algorithm and I used this version in my tic-tac-toe game.

Author

• Website - Jose Saúl Guerrero Serrano
• Github - @josesaulguerrero