Welcome to the Chess App, a robust and interactive chess platform designed to deliver a seamless online chess experience. This application is a clone of Chess.com, featuring real-time gameplay, player challenges, and in-game chat. Built with a modern tech stack, it leverages advanced architectural components to ensure smooth and scalable operations.
- Real-Time Gameplay: Players can engage in live chess matches using WebSocket (WS) connections, enabling instant moves and updates.
- Player Challenges: Users can challenge one another to games, fostering a competitive and interactive environment.
- In-Game Chat: Communicate with your opponent during the game, enhancing the social experience of playing chess.
- Random Game Allocation: Games are randomly assigned between players, ensuring diverse matchups and dynamic gameplay.
- Pub/Sub Messaging: Utilizes Redis Pub/Sub for real-time inter-server messaging, allowing players on different servers to play against each other.
- Caching and Queue Management: Redis is also used for caching game data and managing queues to efficiently allocate games between players.
- Load Balancing: Nginx acts as a load balancer for the WebSocket game server service, distributing incoming connections across multiple servers to ensure high availability and performance.
- Frontend: Developed using React to provide a responsive and interactive user interface.
- Backend: Node.js, Express
- Database: MongoDB
- Caching & Messaging: Redis
- Reverse Proxy & Load Balancing: Nginx
- Frontend: React
- Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose
- Node.js (LTS version recommended)
- Docker and Docker Compose
- MongoDB and Redis (if not using Docker)
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Clone the Repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/chessapp.git cd chessapp -
Start the Redis and Nginx images
docker-compose up -d
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For Development Mode
npm run dev