Stupid Chess

From the Stupid Chess homepage:

This is a web-based board game running on a python-flask/mongo backend with a react frontend. It
is deployed on a raspberry pi running in my house. Here's the salt configuration used to do that:
https://github.com/norwoodj/rpi-salt.

You can see the code for this project at https://github.com/norwoodj/stupidchess
You might also visit my other projects https://hashbash.jmn23.com and https://bolas.jmn23.com.
You can see my personal website at https://jmn23.com.

Stupid Chess is a variant on the popular Chess and checkers board games that John Norwood (that's me)
and some of his college friends invented when we stumbled across a chess board that had been ripped
in half and an incomplete set of pieces. It has a number of delightful rule changes over these earlier
inferior games, and you can learn how to play on this page
https://stupidchess.jmn23.com/how-to-play

This Codebase

This code was largely written as an exploration of how to effectively build and deploy flask/mongo/react projects as well as a way to get the rules of a game that I really enjoy codified in a meaningful way.

Additionally, I'm a professional software developer, and my hope is that you, dear recruiter, see this as an indication of my skillset.

Building and Developing Locally

There is a docker-compose setup for running locally. To start run the following, then navigate to http://localhost:23180 in your browser.

make run

This is setup to include local code changes in the running docker containers as volumes and to use auto-reload for the flask python server and --watch for webpack. In this way your code will get rebuilt and the server reloaded as you make changes.

Releasing

There's a make target for releasing

make release

This is only tested on linux and requires you have installed some dependencies with:

sudo apt install git-buildpackage

Building Debian Package

There's a make target for building this project's debian package

make deb

This is only tested on linux and requires you have installed some dependencies with:

sudo apt install devscripts debhelper dh-virtualenv