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.dev
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.
This codebase holds the frontend code for the stupidchess project, and relies on images built by the related backend project.
The main make target builds the distribution artifact, this has been tested with node version 18 most recently.
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 with --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