Rocket Competitive Programming

A command line client for parsing and making folders and files for test cases using the competitive companion extension and testing the solution. Building this with an 🎯 aim of making Competitive Programming More Productive

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Tech Stack:

Usage [As of development stage]:

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Here is our discord server link - https://discord.gg/axfEwf6K

Note:

• I don't have much knowledge about wether the file operations should be synchronous or asynchronous.
• I'm trying to keep most of the (infact all of the) functions as synchronous.

Checklist:

• Parse the post request data from the extension
• Create files for the problems recieved
• Change the file creation into folder creation
• Make a template directory and copy the template
  • Template Checklist:
    • add the problem metadata on the top of the problem file
    • add only the metadata if template not found
• Create make file for each folder
  • Makefile Checklist:
    • run the program agains the test cases
    • show the difference in a user readable format (chalk for node js coloring/ bash based coloring)
    • Can we have a Makefile in a directory and then use that makefile for all the sub folders [ may be have smaller make files in each sub dir ] - Aim: memory efficient
• Config files storing user preferences
• Ship a binary instead of running the commands using node js. Refer cftool for example (or atleast a npm package that can be installed globally)

Things to figure out (way above my head as of now):

• Running the js script from inside the problem directory
  • May be use a hash bang #/usr/bin/env node and link the file to bin using ln
• Making a npm package that can be installed globally ??
• Make an extension like competitive companion for codechef and codeforces
• Submit the problem to cf from the cli.
  • Network checklist:
    • Check and understand the csrf token stuff
    • Deep dive into the network tab
• If it is that the extension is developed incorporate usage of advanced DOM manipulations and web scraping and parsing and extend the extension to many other sites

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Dependencies:

• Aim to use the least dependencies and Especially not use a web framework and build the application using vanilla node js
• mkdirp - Will rewrite after studying more about path library and seperators and POSIX and NON POSIX URL Like paths
• Prefer having less dependencies to having less SLOC

Recall:

• Donot involve complexities like using env variables at the start
• Think of cross platformeness later
• Make a working version and then focus on refactoring and abstraction

Technical details used:

• PORT for listening to post requests from the extension: 10045
• shebang: #!/usr/bin/env node

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• Please first go through our Code Of Conduct and Contribution Guidelines

Code Formatting

• single quotes
• tab width: 4

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Please use following template for PR:

#Issue id For example - Embed a Makefile into each problem folder #10

• Please use following commit message template during working on assigned issue:

[Issue#Issueid]Summarize the change in less than 50 characters

Because:
- Explain the reasons you made this change
- Make a new bullet for each reason
- Each line should be under 72 characters

For example:

[Issue#10] Added Make File With Two Test Cases

Because:
- To start implementation of extra feature.

• In case of any concern and queries feel free to ping us in assigned discord channels.

Contributors:

Credits goes to these people:✨