ricklopez/app-040323

Minesweeper Coding Challenge

This project represents a clone of the popular game Minesweeper. If you are unfamiliar with the game, it consists of a board of cells. Each cell contains either a mine, the number of cells adjacent to it that contain mines, or is empty. The goal of the game is to reveal all of the cells that do not contain mines. A player loses immediately upon revealing a cell that contains a mine.

In this implementation, each cell can have one of four states -

1. empty (no action taken on the cell yet)
2. "revealed" the user has clicked on the cell and revealed its contents
3. "flagged" the user has flagged the cell as a mine
4. "maybe" the user has marked it as possibly being a mine, but isn't sure

Only the "revealed" state has an impact on whether the user has won or lost the game.

Each cell also has a value, which is either MINE_CELL_VALUE if it is a mine, EMPTY_CELL_VALUE if it is empty, or the number of mines immediately adjacent to the cell.

The game implementation is mostly complete, but a few items need to be implemented, all can be found in Board.tsx and are marked with TODO comments:

• The function that places mines on the board
• A function that applies an action to cells adjacent to a provided one, where "adjacent" includes the immediate neighbors up, down, left, right, and diagonally
• Updating of win/loss status after each action

Running the game

The game can be run by opening a terminal in the directory containing this README and using the command yarn install to install dependencies, then yarn start to start the game. Your browser should automatically launch, pointed at http://localhost:8080 to access the game.