gochess

README

A chess server where players can match and play with others on their web browser

Build

• Install protoc
• Install Golang
• Run make

Observability

• Run jaeger all-in-one to collect traces
• Run prometheus and scrape /chess/metrics to collect metrics

Components

• Web client compiled from Golang with WebAssembly
• Frontend gateway which serves static files and proxies calls to a backend server
• Interchangeable HTTP and WebSocket backend servers communicate with the web client and relay requests/responses to/from the match server via player channels
• Client agnostic match server orchestrates a match
• Matching server with the ability to match a player with a remote chess engine via an engine client
• Chess model for pieces, moves, the board, and a game

Usage as a package

• go get github.com/ekotlikoff/gochess/pkg/chessserver
• GOARCH=wasm GOOS=js go build -o ~/bin/gochessclient.wasm -tags webclient github.com/ekotlikoff/gochess/internal/client/web
• go chessserver.RunServer()