Go Chess - A Chess Website Powered by Go and React

Table of Contents

• About
• Features
• Technologies
• Requirements
• Installation
• Running the application
• Usage

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About

This is a fullstack web application developed with Go in the backend and React in the frontend.

It works by opening a websocket connection that is used to pass messages back and forth from both parts of the application in order to create real time chess matches.

Features

• Play chess online with other players in real-time

• See the movement options for your pieces

• Choose between light and dark modes

Technologies

• Go - The programming language used for the backend
• React - The library used for the frontend
• WebSockets - The communication protocol used between the frontend and the backend
• PostgreSQL - The database system

Requirements

• Go 1.18 or higher

• Gnu Make

• Node.js

• NPM

• PostgreSQL

Installation

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/pedro-git-projects/projeto-integrado-frontend

2. Run the Makefile

make install 

3. Run the script to setup PostgreSQL

./database.sh

If the script fails with role "<\your user>" does not exist, make sure you have the adequate permissions to connect to PostgreSQL.

Running the application

1. Start the backend chess server

make run-chess

2. Start the backend blog server

make run-blog

3. Start the frontend server

make dev

Now you can access the application at http://localhost:5173/

Usage

1. Go to "/play"

2. Create a new room

3. Send the room code which is in the url to your friends

4. Play togheter