Duck Checkers

This was a project that I started for someone who wanted a Checkers version of Duck Chess.

For myself, I aimed to learn:

• how to use the Bun runtime instead of Node
• how to build a frontend using SvelteKit
• how to use websockets for data transfer

Running the Game

If you only want to run the game, you'll need Docker installed and running first. Consider using Docker Desktop.

Follow the .env-template files and create a .env file in the root directory.

Then you can run docker-compose up mongo app api -d to start the application, which should be available on localhost:4173.

Development

I started this project when Bun wasn't available for Windows. In order to get around this, there's a development container available.

1. Populate the .env based on the .env-template.
2. There's another .env needed in the /client folder.
3. Run docker-compose up oven -d.
4. Connect to the container using VS Code and the Attach to Running Container option.
5. Start the API from /server with bun run i, then bun run dev.
6. Start the frontend from /client with bun run i, then bun run dev --host.

Screenshots

Home Page

Game Page