CodyColor back-end service

CodyColor Multiplayer is an educational game developed by Digit S.r.l., inspired by the unplugged coding method CodyColor. Additional information about the game can be found in the Digit blog. The software infrastructure on which the game is based is based on two main components:

• the back-end, composed by a message broker and a NodeJS executable; all the back-end code is contained and handled in a Docker infrastructure;
• the front-end, composed by a web app developed on the AngularJS framework.

This repository includes all the files that form the back-end system of the game.

How to make it run

Configuration details in config.env file. Outside communication (HTTP proxy) relies on Traefik working with automatic Docker setup. See details in docker/docker-compose.yml.

Start the system with:

make up

NodeJS code organization

It is possible to visualize relations between the various modules using the following class diagram.

It is important to underline that the code is not divided in class (even because JavaScript does not completely support OOP), and the diagram does not reports all methods and attributes contained in the modules. Nevertheless, the diagram is very useful to understand the dependencies between the various modules, and to know how the various featues are organized inside the script.