Michess/README.md

chessu

Online 2-player chess. Live demo at ches.su

• React 18
• CSS Modules
• react-chessboard
• chess.js
• Express.js
• socket.io
• PostgreSQL

Development

Root directory

npm install # install all dependencies

npm run dev # concurrently run frontend and backend test servers

npm run build # build frontend and backend for production (see dist/ folders)

npm run react-dev # run frontend server only

Environment variables

Client: APIURL

Server: SESSION_SECRET, PGUSER, PGPASSWORD, PGHOST, PGDATABASE, PGPORT

To-do (move this to issues):

• [] real-time games with chat & observer support
• [] user authentication with oauth2 support (optional)
• [] RESTful API for non-real-time games like daily chess