Server is down when game start

[ikeda-yuko]

first, start server.

$ node ./bin/slither

second, access slither.io on chrome and execute.

forceServer("localhost", 8080)

finally, start game. but, server is down :(

console log display following (ver 0.0.12-dev)

/Users/yuko/sandbox/slither/src/server.coffee:114
          if (value === conn.snake.direction.angle) {
                                  ^
TypeError: Cannot read property 'direction' of undefined
  at Server.module.exports.Server.handleMessage (/Users/yuko/sandbox/slither/src/server.coffee:101:38)
  at WebSocket.emit (events.js:110:17)
  at Receiver.onbinary (/Users/yuko/sandbox/slither/node_modules/ws/lib/WebSocket.js:823:10)
  at /Users/yuko/sandbox/slither/node_modules/ws/lib/Receiver.js:537:18
  at /Users/yuko/sandbox/slither/node_modules/ws/lib/Receiver.js:361:7
  at /Users/yuko/sandbox/slither/node_modules/ws/lib/PerMessageDeflate.js:238:5
  at afterWrite (_stream_writable.js:361:3)
  at onwrite (_stream_writable.js:352:7)
  at WritableState.onwrite (_stream_writable.js:105:5)
  at afterTransform (_stream_transform.js:99:5)
  at TransformState.afterTransform (_stream_transform.js:74:12)
  at Zlib.callback (zlib.js:611:5)

I tried 0.0.11... but, I have like that result.
is there any solution ?
thanks :)

[carcabot]

I'm new into NodeJS, I want to learn little more and I wanted to start with this game :)

I runed into same issue when tried to use slither original client. Maybe this is a client side problem...

[Randy-Ram]

Any update on this issue? I'm currently experiencing this as well.

[Mergim1992]

Is there any update on this issue?

[dounoit]

I have same problem
I'm a node newbie but this is what I got so far:
[Application][DEBUG] You are running slither-server 0.0.11
[Application][INFO] Starting the server in dev at port 8080...
[Server][INFO] Listening for connections
Snake going to 99
/usr/lib/node_modules/slither-server/src/server.coffee:116
conn.snake.direction.x = x * 125;
^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'direction' of undefined
at Server.module.exports.Server.handleMessage (/usr/lib/node_modules/slither-server/src/server.coffee:104:19)
at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
at WebSocket.emit (events.js:191:7)
at Receiver.onbinary (/usr/lib/node_modules/slither-server/node_modules/ws/lib/WebSocket.js:823:10)
at /usr/lib/node_modules/slither-server/node_modules/ws/lib/Receiver.js:537:18
at /usr/lib/node_modules/slither-server/node_modules/ws/lib/Receiver.js:361:7
at /usr/lib/node_modules/slither-server/node_modules/ws/lib/PerMessageDeflate.js:238:5
at afterWrite (_stream_writable.js:385:3)
at onwrite (_stream_writable.js:376:7)
at WritableState.onwrite (_stream_writable.js:90:5)
at afterTransform (_stream_transform.js:79:3)
at TransformState.afterTransform (_stream_transform.js:54:12)
at Zlib.callback (zlib.js:639:5)