chess-io

Reti Chess

A lightweight, real-time chess app built in Node, Express, Socket.IO, React, Flux and Immutable. Reti Chess also uses chess.js for move validation and check/mate/draw detection.

You can play the game on www.retichess.com.

Warning

The app is no longer being developed. It works with node v4, but many things are outdated (it uses react 0.13.1 and mixins, no hot reloading, etc.)

If you want to run it locally (with node v4.2):

• Clone the repo

• Install dependencies

  npm install
  # create empty logfile for winston logger
  mkdir logs
  touch logs/games.log
  

  • Run the server sh npm start

• Preferred way is to run the server with nodemon

  npm install -g nodemon # if you don't have nodemon installed yet
  export NODE_ENV=development
  nodemon bin/www
  

  • If you want to recompile static assets when you save a file sh npm run build

• Running tests

  npm test
  

  • App will run on localhost:8888

  License

  Available under the MIT License (MIT).