Gamz App

Gamz is a platform for families and friends to come together for a virtual game night.

The first version of Gamz will:

• Provide one central "server" for users to authenticate with
• Allow users to use the "Play Now" feature to play the Spades card game

Future development will include:

• Users will create their own Gamz family/friends server
• Users will see presence of other members of the server
• Users will text chat with other members of the server
• Users will video chat with other members of the server (during a game)
• Users will use the Card Game generator to build their own card game for the server

Current stack plan:

• ReactJS
  • TypeScript
  • TailwindCSS
  • React Query
  • Jest
  • React Testing Library
  • Cypress
• NodeJS
  • Socket.io
  • ExpressJS (isn't it what most people use anyways?)
• PostgreSQL

Setup your Dev Environment

Prereqs

• Node
• NPM or YARN package manager (I use yarn)

Setup

Start by cloning the repo:

git clone https://github.com/jeffstahlnecker/gamz

Change directory and install dependencies:

cd gamz && yarn install

Note: you actually need to run yarn install in each of the following folders:

• api
• app
• docs
• ./

Start it up! When you start it, any change made will result in a hot-reload of the system that was changed.

yarn dev

The Real Purpose of this App

I'm an "aspiring" developer and I enjoy it. I've read books taken online courses, and now I want to put all that learning together to build one "epic" application.

Here's what I did before starting:

• Learned HTML/CSS in College
• Added Javascript along the way
• Built MANY a website
• Learned Gatsby
• Started Javascript Testing (60% through)
• Started Epic React (50% through)
• [Reading a Javascript Book (20% through)](https://www.amazon.de/Javascript-Definitive-Most-Used-Programming-Language/dp/1491952024
  • I will add just after 20% I've already learned significantly more about the nuances of Javascript. I highly recommend it.
• Skimmed Node / Express
• Built a fun Discord Bot at work (sorry - they've got that code locked down)

Some not as useful items

• Learned Flutter and Dart
• Learned Flutter Driver (for testing)

What will probably happen

I'm going to be working on this for a long time. It's a side project, not my full time job. But it's a fun one that I hope to really "drive" all that random learning home. Naturally I will continue the courses/books I haven't finished (there are more than I mentioned here), but I'll probably use them more as a reference at this point.

There will be times when no progress is made, and times when lots of progress is made.

If you want to support me

I appreciate it! It's not necessary, but I'm always open to someone helping me stock my coffee machine. In all reality, this will go towards a dedicated budget for development software and furthering my development education.