ChessMaster - A React Chess Game

Chessmaster is a 2-player chess game that works using Rails' Action Cable.

The game logic is vanilla Javascript, while the board, pieces, and the rest of the user interface are React components.

To Get Started

1. Clone down this repo to your computer
2. Clone down the backend repo (here)
3. Cd into the front-end file (this one).
4. In the terminal, run npm install to install any dependencies for the front end
5. Start the front-end local server with npm start.
6. Open another instance of the terminal and open the back-end file
7. Install any depenencies by running bundle install
8. Start the API server by running rails s -p 3001

Key Features

This React Chess Game uses a Rails API to run & serve moves via websocket, as well as persist piece locations. You can find that socket here.

Further plans include completing the web socket configuration to allow for multiple users & games to occur at the same time.

Demo

Link to Youtube Demo