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SheepTester / primitive-cloud-server

A primitive Node server for Scratch 3.0 cloud variables; it's not made for large-scale projects and can easily be tricked by those pesky JavaScript programmers
MIT License
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How do you make this public? #6

Closed spacebytee closed 3 years ago

spacebytee commented 3 years ago

I'm making a rhythm game, and I'm trying to plan all this stuff in advance so I can make a good game with just scratch, I need to know how I can make the server public without port forwarding, is there any type of free server we can use, and how? Like I know you can get free mysql databases, what type of dtabase do I need for this? Is it a normal web server for web hosting?

SheepTester commented 3 years ago

This primitive cloud server, being primitive, doesn't use any kind of database; it just writes to a JSON file. It's just a normal web (HTTP and WebSocket) server

However, I don't know of any free server host

spacebytee commented 3 years ago

So all I need is a json file stored on a server? Maybe I could use github pages or something and have it get the file as a page if that's how this works? You think you would mind maybe making a tutorial on how to do it with a server instead of on your local pc?

spacebytee commented 3 years ago

I just thought about it, and I remembered how I did minecraft servers, I used ngrok to port forward my server without actually port forwarding so people could join, however the port for ngrok updates everytime you restart it, so I would need to update my project, so what if I used a redirect that redirect to my ngrok server, that I can manually change without updating the project.

SheepTester commented 3 years ago

This server automatically creates the JSON file; you don't need to create it yourself.

I can't make a tutorial for hosting the server on a server host because there's a large variety, so one tutorial can't encapsulate all of them, and I'm not familiar with any of them.

A redirect to your ngrok server might work

spacebytee commented 3 years ago

Wait, so all I need is the host, I don't need to do anything with it manually except to create the server? Because if thats so, I would really only need a web socket host and that's it, right?

SheepTester commented 3 years ago

Think so

therealxouzouris commented 3 years ago

So you don't have to port-forward your router if you use ngrok? Is it safer than port forwarding?

SheepTester commented 3 years ago

Perhaps not, though I am not very well versed in networking, unfortunately