Building a chess game with Ruby and React
Details
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.