Chess

This is supposed to provide a testing ground for playing with haskell while learning about how to interact with chess programmatically.

Prerequisites

Toolchain and VSCode setup

You must make sure that stack is installed on your system. stack is a toolchain for handling Haskell projects with dependencies and other required configuration. More information can be found in their docs. You can check this with:

stack --version

To install stack run the following command:

brew install haskell-stack

You will then need to make sure that you have the correct version of ghc installed for this project which you can do by running the following from within this directory:

stack setup

You might also want to install a number of extensions for vscode to make devlopment easier:

code --install-extension haskell.haskell
code --install-extension justusadam.language-haskell
code --install-extension hoovercj.haskell-linter

The last extension will require that you also have hlint installed. This can be installed using stack:

stack install hlint

You will also have to add something to your global vscode settings. You can access these by pressing cmd+shift+P, typing in "settings" and then selecting "Preferences: Open Settings (JSON)". This is what you will want to add, replacing <user-name> with your own system name:

{
    ...
    "haskell.hlint.executablePath": "/Users/<user-name>/.local/bin/hlint"
}

Running tests

The tests are all contained within ./test folder. The are written in a very similar way to how we use jest/mocha but with a tool called hspec. To run them simply use:

stack test