A family favourite game brought online to support social distancing!
Card parties are a regular part of life with our friends and family, but due to COVID none of us our socializing in person these days
We decided to build an online version of one of our favorite cards games so that we could still spend time playing together. Our family jumped on board and helped us through several rounds of testing!
You will need at least 3 people to play a game. To start a new game or join an existing game go to the deployment here: https://quarantined-wizzards.herokuapp.com/
The first player starts the game and then sends the game code to the other players so that they can join.
Once the game is created, enter your username and join. Once all the players have joined, the user who created the game will start the game with the "All Players In" button.
The trump suit will be chosen and then it will wait for all players to make their bets. The star icon means that this is the player that will be the trick leader
When it is your turn, click on your hand to bring up the form to place a card
Occasionally the socket connection times out. When this happens you'll need to refresh your page. If you have installed this as a progressive web app (PWA) then you can click on the scoreboard to find a "refresh state" option which is equivalent.
This project uses redis, socket.io, and React.js.
Before the server can be run redis should be installed and the redis server running
redis-serverNext build the server and start it
npm run build:server:devand
npm startAnd then the client development server (webpack)
npm run start:devThe client can now be viewed in the browser at http://localhost:3000.