davidjnelson / modified_eight_queens

A variant of eight queens, using recursive backtracking and depth first search. Includes static typing with flow, a browser visualization and very thorough integration tests.

General

• The program runs as a web application on your local machine on port 8080.

Installation And Usage

• If you are running on OSX, make sure you have the Xcode Developer Tools: xcode-select --install
• Install NVM: curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.2/install.sh | bash ( other ways available here )
• Install what were the latest Node and NPM as of when this was created: nvm install 8.1.2. This will also install npm 5.0.3.
• To clean, run make clean.
• To build assets ready for deployment in the ./build directory, run make build. make builddoes not run make clean as make clean erases the node_modules directory, which would require the npm install that occurs during make build to re-download all dependencies.
• To test, run make test.
• To run, run make run. make run always runs make build before running to copy the html and css files the application uses. Then load http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.
• The application was developed and tested using Chrome on OSX. It is recommended to run it in Chrome on OSX.