consideRatio/gomoku

A multiplayer five-in-a-row game web page, created using Meteor and React.

Gomoku, by Erik Sundell

A webpage to play Gomoku against other humans, developed in Meteor and React using Mantra architecture.

Live

Try a live demonstration at gomoku-demo.herokuapp.com

Tech in project

• Meteor (1.3.2.4)
  • FlowRouter (2.11.0)
• React (0.14.7) (Overkill)
• Mantra (0.2.0) (Overkill)
  • Mantra-CLI (0.3.11)
  • react-komposer
  • react-mounter
  • react-simple-di
• Material Design Lite (1.1.3)
• ES2015
• Git (2.8.1)
  • GitHub
• Heroku
  • Meteor Buildpack Horse (82c0e23)
  • MongoLab

Recent learning and refreshing

• Meteor (Tutorials & Guide)
• LevelUpTuts
  • Atom
  • Meteor
  • React
  • Meteor + React
  • SASS
    • Susy
• CodeSchool
  • MongoDB
  • ES2015
  • Git
  • HTML5 / CSS3 / SVG / SASS / Design

Challanges faced

• Utilizing React for the first time.
• Implementing Mantra project architecture using react-komposer, react-mounter, react-simple-di, and learning how they play along with meteors Tracker and trackable variables such as Meteor.user().
• Implementing Material Design Lite in a React application (Community interaction).
• Implmenting basic login using accounts-base and accounts-password in React with dynamic DOM-rendering.
• Handling an increasing amount of states (user login / challenges / game), time to learn Redux?
• Designing a Gomoku-board with HTML and SASS with minor animations.