Four in a Row - Server

An online version of the popular game four in a row, written in Rust on the server side and Flutter + Dart on the client.

Download here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ml.fourinarow

Or play online (beta): https://play.fourinarow.ffactory.me/

Related Projects:

Clientside: fourinarow-app
Serverside: fourinarow-server
[WIP] bot / watcher: fourinarow-bot

Features:

world wide online play
over 4000 downloads
account creation, friends system
beautiful, minimalist design
subtle animations
request to battle your friends
local mode: two players - one device

Under the hood:

reliable websocket connection
message delivery guarantee
message reordering on client and server side
clean architecture: state and view completely separate
automatic reconnection

Deployment

Prerequisites

Before getting started, make sure you have Docker with Docker Compose installed on your machine.

Deploy

Set up reverse proxy with traefik: https://github.com/ffactory-ofcl/vps-reverse-proxy. Follow instructions there.
Create a deploy key using this script and add it to the Github repository.
Clone this repository using the command echoed by the script.
Copy the .env_template file to .env and fill in the values.
```
cp .env_template .env
nano .env
```

Create a systemd service file:

sudo cp fourinarow-server.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable fourinarow-server
sudo systemctl start fourinarow-server

Check the status:
```
sudo systemctl status fourinarow-server
```