gomoku

A prototype version of online multiplayer Gomoku web application based on Vue.js, Flask and MongoDB, running live on Heroku.

Live Demo

Project setup

Requirements:

• Python >= 3.6
• Node.js >= 8.0

git clone https://github.com/StidZhang/gomoku.git
cd gomoku
npm install
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run in local environment

Need to install MongoDB >= 4.0, then run npm run serve and flask run separately under gomoku folder. Project set to be running at http://localhost:8080 on default.

Run on Heroku

1. Connect the repo to your Heroku app.
2. Add both Python and Node.js in your Buildpacks under Settings.
3. If you don't have a MongoDB to connect to, add mLab MongoDB Add-on in Heroku Resources. Then add the MongoDB URI into MONGODB_URI in Config Vars under Settings.
4. Add a random string into SECRET_KEY in Config Vars under Settings for Flask security reason.

Future plan

• Player matching and ranking system
• Swap2 rule implementation
• Historical match replay and view live match as audience
• Live chat
• Add bots trained by different machine learning model

Author

Stid Zhang

Yang Gao

LICENSE

MIT