0xChess

chess on a hexagonal board that is not patented

how can I get up and running locally?

bun i && bun start

note however, that you need to host the frontend if you want to play in your local network (e.g. by adding server: { host: true }, to the vite.config.ts)

what's next for this project?

• declarative deployment

technical remarks

if the technical side of this project tickles your fancy, here are some things I should have done differently:

• don't have a single package.json for frontend and backend
• use zustand instead of shoving preacts signals around
  • the subscriptions would have probably played nicer with phaser
  • would have lead to less duplications of state in phaser vs preact
• having "type safe" sockets might not be worth having an unholy wrapper for client and server sockets
• phasers (stateful) object based approach to rendering is not my cup of tea
  • turns out, I prefer libraries like raylib, LÖVE 2D, libGDX or MonoGame (maybe even in that order)