/SE-socketio-rest

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Simple Application showcase of REST + Socketio servers

Architecture Overview

This is a showcase of using 2 servers.

  • UI Server
    • Using socketio to connect to clients
    • Allows full-duplex communcation
    • Allows broadcast and single messaging in real time
  • Game Logic Server
    • Using Flask to implement the REST API server

How to run it

  1. Clone it
  2. Open 3-4 terminals
  3. cd game-logic-server > flask run (make sure you pip install flask alr)
  4. cd ui-server > npm install > node index.js (make sure you have node installed, with v16.19.0+)
  5. cd client > npm install > npm start or npm start --port [port number]

Important files

  • Client
    • /src/App.js - This is where how the page looks like and dynamic re-render when the numbers has been updated
  • UI Server
    • index.js - This is where I create a server using socketio with the express framework
  • Game Logic Server
    • app.py - This is where the flask server and route & functions for getting resources