Trading Card Backend

Simple Node.js Express App, which is basically a RESTful API for something like a trading card game.

Everything is build around one simple JSON, where you can define the cards and all nesessary value of your cards to shape your game. After this, you are ready to go: Retrieve your cards, create / or allow register of new user, manage the inventory of users and users cards decks.

Quickstart:

Install

$ npm install

Define Cards (or outcomment .example.json for testing)

static/Cards.json

Start

$ npm start

Play. Cards. With your Friends. 🃏

Add your custom Cards

Simply define all your cards in static/Cards.json

Something like should work for most Card Games:

[{
	"id": "spell.fireball",
	"category": "Spell",
	"title": "Mighty Fireball",
	"element": "Fire",
	"value": 100,
	"attack": 10,
	"mana": 5,
	"quality": "normal"
},{
	"id": "spell.icefist",
	"category": "Spell",
	"title": "Ice Fist",
	"element": "Ice",
	"value": 120,
	"attack": 15,
	"mana": 7,
	"quality": "normal"
}]

Add categories / decks / groups to organize your cards

You can define categories, which will generate automatically new API Endpoints to organize your cards. Define them in static/Categories.json

In our case something like category and element works great.

["category","element"]

The related API endpoints would be: /api/cards/element/fire / /api/cards/category/spell

API-Endpoints

GET /api/cards

Status: 200 Result.data: Array of Cards, analogous to Cards.json

GET /api/card/:cardid

Params (required): :cardid the ID of the card you want to query.

Status: 200 Result.data: Object with Values of the Card, as defined in Cards.json

When no Card is found by the given id:

Status: 404 Result.data: null

When no CardId is delivered:

Status: 400 Result.data: null

GET /api/cards/:category/:value

Params (required): :category mostly dynamic, defined trough Categories.json Params (required): :value the value you want to query.

GET /api/categories

Status: 200 Result.data: Array of Objects, with possible combinations Objects looks like [{ name: 'category', values: ['value1', 'value2'] }]

ToDo / Planed

• MongoDB Integration
• Usermanagement
• Storing Inventories / possibillity to give Users cards
• trading Cards with other Users
• Card-Deck Management