shoebox is an experiment in creating a little virtual space to hang out with friends, using an uber-basic interface inspired by the palace. like the palace, you're represented by a little bitmap who can move around a world; unlike the palace, this is tied to a proximity-based voice chat system allowing you to join and leave ad-hoc peer-to-peer voice conversations powered by webrtc.
start the server (localhost:4000):
cd server/
./gradlew run
start the webpack dev server, peerjs server, and tsc:
cd frontend/
npm install
npm start
go to localhost:8080
this is a bit complicated:
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you'll want to deploy the server, probably as a docker image using the built-in jib configuration.
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then you'll want to host the host the static assets on the same host. your routing table should look like:
/api -> $yourserverhost/api /ws -> $yourserverhost/ws /* -> static contents of dist/ -
you'll need a peerjs server that handles webrtc signaling. you can host this somewhere or just use the project-supplied one. this needs to get set using the
PEERJS_env vars (see webpack.config)