Four in a Row - Server

An online version of the popular game four in a row, written in Rust on the server side and Flutter + Dart on the client.

Download here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ml.fourinarow

Or play online (beta): https://play.fourinarow.ffactory.me/

Related Projects:

• Clientside: fourinarow-app

• Serverside: fourinarow-server

• [WIP] bot / watcher: fourinarow-bot

Features:

• world wide online play
• over 4000 downloads
• account creation, friends system
• beautiful, minimalist design
• subtle animations
• request to battle your friends
• local mode: two players - one device

Under the hood:

• reliable websocket connection
• message delivery guarantee
• message reordering on client and server side
• clean architecture: state and view completely separate
• automatic reconnection

Deployment

Prerequisites

Before getting started, make sure you have Docker with Docker Compose installed on your machine.

Deploy

1. Set up reverse proxy with traefik: https://github.com/filippo-orru/vps-reverse-proxy. Follow instructions there.

2. Create a deploy key using this script and add it to the Github repository.

3. Clone this repository using the command echoed by the script.

4. Copy the .env_template file to .env and fill in the values.

   cp .env_template .env
   nano .env

5. Create a systemd service file:

   sudo cp fourinarow-server.service /etc/systemd/system/
   sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   sudo systemctl enable fourinarow-server
   sudo systemctl start fourinarow-server

6. Check the status:

   sudo systemctl status fourinarow-server