Browser game · side project
Word Wizz
Solo Builder · 2026
ReactTypeScript
About the Project
Word Wizz is a word-guessing game built to sharpen my React state-management skills outside of client work. Each round tracks guesses, scoring, and win/lose feedback with immediate, snappy UI response.
Built with React and TypeScript, the focus was on keeping game logic predictable with a typed reducer and the UI responsive — memoising expensive derivations and keeping the whole game keyboard-playable — without reaching for external state libraries.
What I learned
Managing round-by-round game state cleanly in React reinforced good habits around colocating state and avoiding unnecessary re-renders.
The project is live and open source on GitHub.
★ Side project · source on GitHub