Name: Building a chess game with Ruby and React
Start: 2016-11-29T18:30:00Z
End: 2016-11-29T21:30:00Z
Location: McSwiggans Bar & Restaurant

**Online multiplayer game with React**

To demonstrate how to get Drag and Drop working in a front end interface Liam Krewer will give a practical example of building a chess game with Ruby and React.

Followed by chat, food and drink.

Overview:

- An overview of web technologies: Ruby on Rails, Coffescript, Grunt, React, Reflux, web sockets

- Ruby on Rails: as a JSON API

- React & Reflux: using state machines and uni-directional data flow to simplify web applications

- Coffeescipt & Grunt: How to build complex front end code

- Websockets: Realtime communication across the web without a server

- Building a chess game: similarities between react's state machine and a games event loop

- Chat, food and drink.

All skills levels are welcome.

Alan O'Rourke

Cillian Myles

Liam Krewer

Galway Developer Meetup

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Ruby

Software Development

Front-end Development

JavaScript Frameworks

Rich Internet Applications

ReactJS

Web Development

Ruby On Rails

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