From the Stupid Chess homepage:
This is a web-based board game running on a python-flask/mongo backend with a react frontend.
It is deployed on a raspberry pi cluster running kubernetes. Visit my github to view the salt-stack
configuration, build tools, and custom docker images I've built to deploy this and other projects
on this platform.
You can see this particular project at https://github.com/norwoodj/stupidchess
You might also visit my other project https://hashbash.jmn23.com
Stupid Chess is a variant on the popular Chess and checkers board games that John Norwood (that's me)
and some of his college friends invented when we stumbled across a chess board that had been ripped
in half and an incomplete set of pieces. It has a number of delightful rule changes over these earlier
inferior games, and you can learn how to play on this page
https://stupidchess.jmn23.com/how-to-play
This code was largely written as an exploration of how to effectively build and deploy flask/mongo/react projects as well as a way to get the rules of a game that I really enjoy codified in a meaningful way.
Additionally, I'm a professional software developer, and my hope is that you, dear recruiter, see this as an indication of my skillset.
There is a docker-compose setup for running locally. To start run the following, then navigate to http://localhost:23180 in your browser.
make run
This is setup to include local code changes in the running docker containers as volumes and to use auto-reload for the flask python server and --watch for webpack. In this way your code will get rebuilt and the server reloaded as you make changes.
There's a make target for releasing
make release
This is only tested on linux and requires you have installed some dependencies with:
sudo apt install git-buildpackage
There's a make target for building this project's debian package
make deb
This is only tested on linux and requires you have installed some dependencies with:
sudo apt install devscripts debhelper dh-virtualenv