Online 2player chess built with React Express and socketio

chessu

❗ This project is still in the early stages of development and should be considered highly unstable. Expect bugs, weird behavior, and bad code. (see #1)

Online 2-player chess. Live demo at ches.su

React 18
CSS Modules
react-chessboard
chess.js
Express.js
socket.io
PostgreSQL

Development

This repository is used for production deployments. You will need to make changes to the configuration to get this running locally.

npm install # install all dependencies

npm run dev # concurrently run frontend and backend dev servers

npm run react-dev # run frontend server only

Environment variables

Client: APIURL (or just change apiUrl in /client/src/config/config.ts)

Server: PORT, SESSION_SECRET, PGUSER, PGPASSWORD, PGHOST, PGDATABASE, PGPORT
(also see server cors config and session middleware for local development)

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