Hackquest website

Production environment and setup

• Node.js: Preferably v16
• Run yarn --prod in the project root to install dependencies
• Environment variables
  • SESSION_SECRET: A strong OpenSSL generated key
  • DB_PATH: Path to a SQLite database
  • LEADERBOARD_CACHE_TIME: Time in milliseconds to cache the leaderboard
  • QUESTIONS_BASE_PATH: Path to the questions directory which should contain the images and the questions.json file
  • REGISTERED_USERS_PATH: Path to a json file containing an array of users' email addresses registered on VIT Chennai Events.

Setting the questions

• A questions.json file should be present in the QUESTIONS_BASE_PATH directory. It should contain an array of objects with the following structure:

  {
      "level": 1,
      "question": "Question text",
      "answer": "Answer text",
      "image": "image.webp"
  }

• The image field should be the name of the STRICTLY WEBP formatted image file in the QUESTIONS_BASE_PATH directory.