Gamz is a platform for families and friends to come together for a virtual game night.
The first version of Gamz will:
- Provide one central "server" for users to authenticate with
- Allow users to use the "Play Now" feature to play the Spades card game
Future development will include:
- Users will create their own Gamz family/friends server
- Users will see presence of other members of the server
- Users will text chat with other members of the server
- Users will video chat with other members of the server (during a game)
- Users will use the Card Game generator to build their own card game for the server
Current stack plan:
- ReactJS
- TypeScript
- TailwindCSS
- React Query
- Jest
- React Testing Library
- Cypress
- NodeJS
- Socket.io
- ExpressJS (isn't it what most people use anyways?)
- PostgreSQL
Prereqs
- Node
- NPM or YARN package manager (I use yarn)
Setup
Start by cloning the repo:
git clone https://github.com/jeffstahlnecker/gamz
Change directory and install dependencies:
cd gamz && yarn install
Note: you actually need to run yarn install in each of the following folders:
- api
- app
- docs
- ./
Start it up! When you start it, any change made will result in a hot-reload of the system that was changed.
yarn dev
I'm an "aspiring" developer and I enjoy it. I've read books taken online courses, and now I want to put all that learning together to build one "epic" application.
- Learned HTML/CSS in College
- Added Javascript along the way
- Built MANY a website
- Learned Gatsby
- Started Javascript Testing (60% through)
- Started Epic React (50% through)
- [Reading a Javascript Book (20% through)](https://www.amazon.de/Javascript-Definitive-Most-Used-Programming-Language/dp/1491952024
- I will add just after 20% I've already learned significantly more about the nuances of Javascript. I highly recommend it.
- Skimmed Node / Express
- Built a fun Discord Bot at work (sorry - they've got that code locked down)
- Learned Flutter and Dart
- Learned Flutter Driver (for testing)
I'm going to be working on this for a long time. It's a side project, not my full time job. But it's a fun one that I hope to really "drive" all that random learning home. Naturally I will continue the courses/books I haven't finished (there are more than I mentioned here), but I'll probably use them more as a reference at this point.
There will be times when no progress is made, and times when lots of progress is made.
I appreciate it! It's not necessary, but I'm always open to someone helping me stock my coffee machine. In all reality, this will go towards a dedicated budget for development software and furthering my development education.
