Balanced Chess
Balanced chess is a project in node.js and uses websockets (socket.io) to give realtime updates and gameplay.
Getting Started
First you need to download node.js from http://nodejs.org/download/
Note: Node comes with an awesome package manager called npm. Some useful commands:
- npm list
- npm install 'package'
- npm uninstall 'package'
Currently we have the following packages installed
- express - express is a framework that makes things easy, providing routing, middleware and other nice features.
- socket.io - easy websockets. socket.io first initiates a normal http connection then upgrades to html5 websockets if it can. Has fallbacks for flash sockets etc
- jade - simple lightweight templating engine that we'll be using for a bit of server-side templating.