DEPRECATED

This chess app is out of date and currently in the process of being reworked

Chess App

This project runs a simple chess application run using a minmax alpha-beta pruning algorithm.

To start the project

Install all packages by running:

yarn install

In the project directory, you can run:

yarn dev

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

Create a .env file

Add the following line to the .env file: NODE_PATH=./src

Where is it hosted

Currently hosted on Heroku, where auto deploys occur whenever the production branch of this repo is updated.

Anything else I should know?

The website is pinged every 30 minutes using a Google Apps Script fetch function to prevent the website from going to sleep.

Libraries used for chess app

chess.js

chessboardjsx