Building a chess game with Ruby and React

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.