MatthiasHu / boardgame-io-test

Some experimentation with the boardgame.io framework

I followed the boardgame.io tutorial, using React.js.

developing

After installing Node.js and cloning this repo, run npm install. (This creates ./node_modules, taking up about 500MB.)

We can run a local gamemaster server (backend) by npm run gamemaster-server and serve the web app on a local web server by npm start (in another terminal).

deploying

To host the app on a public Nginx server:

• Clone the repo on the public server and run npm install there.
• Change the server address in src/GomokuClient.js from 'localhost:8000' to the desired one, like 'https://example.org/'.
• Run npm run build.
• Copy the contents of the resulting build directory somewhere below the web root served by Nginx.
• Start the gamemaster server on the public server just like we would do it locally: npm run gamemaster-server.
• Configure Nginx to forward the path /socket.io/ to localhost:8000, taking care to allow WebSocket connections.

In NixOS, we can configure Nginx like this:

locations."/socket.io/" = {
  proxyPass = "http://localhost:8000";
  proxyWebsockets = true;
};