What I Built

Which Dog Are You Today? — a tiny, silly personality quiz. Five daft questions about your Saturday mornings, your feelings on doorbells, and your ideal compliment, and you get crowned as one of five dog breeds: Golden Retriever, Corgi, Greyhound, Border Collie, or Pug. The goal was pure low-stakes fun with no login, no backend, no tracking — just open it, answer five questions, and get told which dog you are today. (Not forever. Today. Check back tomorrow — you might be a different dog.)

Demo

🐾 The lineup:

Breed	You are...
🟡 Golden Retriever	Boundless joy, zero impulse control
🟠 Corgi	Short legs, tall opinions, runs the house
🔵 Greyhound	Capable of 40mph, choosing 0mph
🟢 Border Collie	Rest is a bug, not a feature
🟣 Pug	Didn't ask to be this glamorous, happened anyway

Code

Lanthanum89 / dev.to-weekend-doggos

Five daft questions. One inevitable truth about your energy levels. This is a tiny, silly personality quiz built for the DEV.to Weekend Doggos challenge. Answer questions about your Saturday mornings, your feelings on doorbells, and your ideal compliment — and find out which dog breed you truly are today. (Not forever. Today.)

🐶 Which Dog Are You Today?

Five daft questions. One inevitable truth about your energy levels.

This is a tiny, silly personality quiz built for the DEV.to Weekend Doggos challenge. Answer questions about your Saturday mornings, your feelings on doorbells, and your ideal compliment — and find out which dog breed you truly are today. (Not forever. Today. Check back tomorrow, you might be a different dog.)

🐾 The lineup

Breed	You are...
🟡 Golden Retriever	Boundless joy, zero impulse control
🟠 Corgi	Short legs, tall opinions, runs the house
🔵 Greyhound	Capable of 40mph, choosing 0mph
🟢 Border Collie	Rest is a bug, not a feature
🟣 Pug	Didn't ask to be this glamorous, happened anyway

Answer 5 questions, scores tally up behind the scenes, and whichever dog you matched hardest with gets crowned your spirit animal (ties broken at random, because chaos is thematically appropriate here).

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How I Built It

The stack is deliberately small: React 19 + TypeScript, Vite for dev/build, and Tailwind CSS 4 for the bold, hand-drawn look. Deploys happen automatically to GitHub Pages on every push to main via GitHub Actions.

A few decisions worth calling out:

Scoring is a simple tally, not a decision tree. Each answer bumps a per-breed counter (scores[breedId]++), and after the last question the breed(s) with the highest score win. It's a flat array of five integers — easy to reason about and easy to extend with a new breed.

Ties are broken at random, not by array order, because letting the "first" breed always win on a tie felt thematically wrong for a quiz about chaos and personality.

No illustration library. The dog faces are hand-rolled SVGs (<DogFace />) that take a color and an earStyle (floppy | pointy | folded | droop) as props, so each breed gets a distinct face just by composing the same component differently — mostly transform: rotate() on ear paths.

Content is fully data-driven. Breeds and questions live in src/data.ts as plain arrays/objects. Adding a new dog means adding a Breed entry and referencing its id from question options — no component changes needed.

Oxlint for fast linting, keeping the toolchain lightweight for a weekend build.

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