Longest Seven-segment display word

Taking on the challenge from Tom Scott, this code library sets out to determine what the longest word you can write with a seven segment display.

Take a look at his Youtube Challenge Video. He disallows the following characters: gkmqvwxz. We too will exclude those characters.

To view my tutorial on how I created this codebase please watch it on Youtube.

Useful links

• Public domain list of English words: https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
• NodeJs: https://nodejs.org/
• Typescript: http://www.typescriptlang.org/
• Seven Segment Font: https://www.dafont.com/seven-segment.font

Node

Since Tom used NodeJs, we will do so too. However, because I like typescript because it keeps a flakey programming language a bit stricter we'll use it to prevent errors. Since this is a just a 'for fun' coding challenge, I'm not going to be doing any tests in this project.

Taking it to the next level.

While it's good to get the longest acceptable word, I like to know what words were possible. As such we will be creating an array with all the acceptable words. And then we will create a server and output the word to a web page.

Install

First clone the package

git clone [email protected]:midnite81/longest-word-challenge.git

Then run

yarn
yarn run build:live

alternatively if you don't want to rely on nodemon then you can compile the script first and run with node directly.

yarn
yarn run go