Minimum frontend

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Use Sabaki

• no auth (hardoded & fake UID)
• resurrect some Sabaki engine logic into a branch
• implement a Sabaki GTP-style controller to communicate with gateway
• implement gateway communication via web sockets
• don't bother to trim anything else out of Sabaki, just take its interface as is
• handle player assignment / engine attachment sanely.

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Example game using canvas

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript

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https://github.com/Kashomon/glift/blob/master/README.md

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https://github.com/waltheri/wgo.js

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wgo.js draw Handlers could be useful for putting a marker down before move is acknowledged by backend

WGo.Board.drawHandlers

http://wgo.waltheri.net/documentation

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wgo.js allows using a custom board graphic

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https://github.com/SabakiHQ/Sabaki/tree/web

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sabaki engines docs

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Some info on Sabaki engines

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https://github.com/SabakiHQ/gtp

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It's easy to hook up Sabaki desktop version to play against Gnu Go. Sabaki talks to Gnu Go using Go Text Protocol(GTP).

This setup is currently supported in Sabaki desktop version only.

We could write a small node.js/socket.io app which responds to GTP from Sabaki and communicates with our gateway layer, providing multiplayer.

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Once that's done, we'd probably know enough to be able to extend Sabaki-web

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https://www.npmjs.com/package/events

Events package which can be used to fill in for missing nodejs Event Emitter api

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Implemented in Terkwood's Sabaki repo