Simple chess game fully in Vanilla Javascript and running on Node.JS server.

You can use this project on localhost or on a Node.js server to use it online.

Try it here!

Clone this project and open the 'live_chess' directory into a terminal, then install dependencies by running:

npm install

After installing the dependencies, start the project by running:

npm start

App will be available on localhost at specified port in the bin/www file (> defaultPort) or you can specify it in an environment file .env.

Multiplayer WebSocket server will automaticaly start on port 8080 nothing more is required.

Multiple games can be played in the same time, players are automatically matched.

An easy way to do is to enable ProxyPass on virtual host and configure the server as follow.

To serve the Node application:

<VirtualHost *:80 *:443 >

	...

    ProxyPass / http://localhost:[app-port]/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:[app-port]/
</VirtualHost>

To serve the WebSocket:

<VirtualHost *:80 *:443 >

	...

    ProxyPass / ws://localhost:[socket-port]/
    ProxyPassReverse / ws://localhost:[socket-port]/
</VirtualHost>

The 'ws_server' file is meant to create a distant WebSocket server.