halfblindchess.com

https://halfblindchess.com is a free, open-source chess server for the half-blind chess variant.

Development

The codebase has two services:

1. the React (Vite) frontend in src/

   npm install
   npm run dev
   

2. the backend (Express / Socket.io with Redis) in game-server/

   cd game-server
   npm install
   npm run dev
   

You will also need a local instance of redis running on port 6379. On OSX:

brew install redis
redis-server

Develop the app at http://localhost:5173, the backend runs on http://localhost:3000. Redis can be accessed directly with redis-cli.

Deployment

Dependencies

• Linux distro with systemd/systemctl
• node@18
• redis
• nginx
• pm2

Deploy

Clone the code and run the deploy script:

git clone https://github.com/benchaplin/halfblindchess.com.git
chmod +x ./scripts/deploy.sh
./scripts/deploy.sh