BenPrt / Life-is-a-game

This project is an Electron/VueJs implementation of the John Conway's Game of Life

Life is a game..

Description

This project is an Electron/VueJs implementation of the John Conway's Game of Life. It was part of a job technical interview, and I made it from scratch in less than 48 hours without any knowledge of Electron, and only basics of VueJs.

Features

This application implements the basic game rules, and I also added some additionnal features :

• An automatic game mode with adjustable speed
• A step-by-step mode
• The game grid is initialized with a randomly placed glider
• A reset button
• The game grid is resizable (However, I limited this feature to a maximal size to keep a harmonious display)

Architecture and configuration

This project is made up from 2 parts :

• A VueJs application, implementing the view part
• An Electron application, rendering the VueJs application in a native window, and handling algorithm and process.

Those two parts are communicating using the IPC (inter-process communication) module from Electron framework.

The codebase is linted with ESLint and the Airbnb configuration.

Installation

npm install

I would also advise you to execute this command to have the less vulnerable libraries possible :

npm audit fix

Start the project

Start the production mode : Electron renders optimized VueJs app

npm start

Start the development mode with hot reload (Electron rendering the VueJS development server)

npm run start-dev

Lint the application

npm run lint