Build an online board game to play with your friends.
This is not a framework or a library. It is all the code I needed to build a couple of online board games except for the game itself. The idea is that throwing together a new online board game is as simple as cloning this repo and filling out the Game React component and Game class on the server. The rest of the code here handles server setup, creating and joining game rooms, switching teams, choosing a leader for each team (e.g. a Codenames clue-giver, or a Taboo guesser, etc), waiting until a game has enough players and leaders to start, chat, and so on.
The code here is intended to be as simple as possible to edit, not to be fully production-ready or polished. Assumptions:
- The game has two teams, with at least two players on each team
- One player on each team is the 'leader' or has some similar special role
- Only the leader can end turns
See Codenames and Taboo for some rough working examples.
You should be able to auto-deploy your game on Heroku directly from the git repo. If you want to use your own infra, it's just a node.js process - go nuts.
yarn install
Run yarn start to start the backend server.
To develop on the frontend client, run yarn build --mode=development to build the frontend bundle. Webpack will watch for changes but you will have to refresh.
Run yarn lint to autofix linting errors.