🚀 Self Quest ⭐📚

Enhance your study strategy by creating your own questions using a single window desktop application built with JetBrains Compose for Desktop, Ktor, and Exposed.

📝 Desktop App details

A minimalist desktop application for generating quiz collections, using dual-mode interactive flash cards.

Every quiz question comes with an optional review slot that accepts detailed text (currently only with basic formatting), as well as links to external resources.

Switching to quiz mode currently only blocks access to the review slots and forces progression forward by requiring a chosen answer for each question.

💼 Desktop features

• UI events trigger Ktor HTTP client SQClient in common module to make requests to server
• Tab layout allows easy switching between question and review slots or navigating an entire collection in either slot
• Pop-up dialogs triggered by either requesting data deletion or attempting to leave a form without saving
• Custom input forms with input validation
• Robust UI (unit and integration) test suites

📝 Server details

A self-hosted Ktor server application with persistence via an H2 embedded database. Collections are saved in build/demodb.mv.db, based on specifications set in application.conf.

💼 Server features

• Exposed framework's typesafe DSL
• JDBC connection pooling using HikariCP framework
• Type-safe routing using the Resources plugin inResources.kt
• JSON deserialization into data objects using the ContentNegotiation plugin
• Both server DAO unit tests and routing tests using a custom testApplication

💻 Run desktop application

• Clone the repository

• Open the project in IntelliJ IDEA and run Server.kt from the server module

• Once the server has started, run Main.kt from the desktop module

Note that the server will automatically shut down as a part of the application exit process.

🔬 Run tests

Clone the repository then pick an option:

• Open the project in IntelliJ IDEA then choose specific tests using gutter icons in either the desktop or server module

• Open the Gradle toolbar and select server/Tasks/verification/test to run server-side tests or select desktop/Tasks/verification/test to run client-side tests

• ./gradlew :server:test or ./gradlew :desktop:test from an open terminal in the root of the project