Chess-Gang

ASGI Django Server to play Chess in real-time using Django Channels and Redis.

master branch

Master branch is for developement Django server to be run on local system (Windows). Follow these steps to use:

1. Install all the dependencies by running pipenv install (install pipenv first)
2. Ensure you have Redis running on port #6379 for it to work correctly. This can be achieved using Docker (on Windows) by running the command docker run -p 6379:6379 -d redis:5
3. Finally run server using python manage.py runserver

render branch

Render branch was created so that render.com can be a drop-in replacement for deploying freely in leiu of Heroku. View my deployment here (Takes a few seconds to startup).
Follow these steps to deploy:

1. Create a Redis application on render and note down the internal URL. Should look like redis://red-[UNIQUE SEQUENCE]:6379
2. Clone this repo and create a new web application on Render with your render branch
3. Create the following environment variables for application: PYTHON_VERSION : 3.8.17, REDIS_URL: [URL you noted down], SECRET_KEY : [Use the generate option to create a secure one]
4. Build command should be sh build.sh and start command should be pipenv run daphne pychess.asgi:application --bind 0.0.0.0 -v2

prod branch (Not free anymore [Heroku])

Prod branch was made keeping in mind the end result of deployment on Heroku using the free-tier. You can view the version that I have deployed here.
IMPORTANT! Please Read: Free tier is no longer available on Heroku so this link will not work as the dyno is down. The production steps will still work nevertheless
Follow these steps to deploy:

1. Clone this branch and create a new application on Heroku
2. Add the Heroku Redis addon to the application (free-tier available)
3. Link the cloned repo to your application and deploy