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ejnnr / web-chess

A web implementation of a chess database program like Scid.
MIT License
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how to run it #36

Open trappedinspacetime opened 7 years ago

trappedinspacetime commented 7 years ago

First of all congratulations on your project. I am running Ubuntu 16.04, I cloned the project and completed the steps in the readme file, but I have no idea about how to launch it. I am familiar with nwjs, node, electron but this one uses none of them. Would you please tell me how to run it? Regards. Kenn

ejnnr commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your feedback! This project runs directly in a browser, so you need to set it up like any normal website and then just visit the URL in your browser (how that URL looks exactly depends on how you set up Apache). However, as you can see, I haven't worked on this project for over a year, so all the dependecies are extremely outdated. Also, the UI in this repository is nowhere close to finished, so far you can basically only use the REST API of the server which is almost done. There is a slightly newer UI here but it's also unfinished and it doesn't even use the API from this repo.

Now that I see other people are actually interested in this, I might continue working on it, but I can't promise anything right now. If anyone wants to write their own frontend, it might be easiest to start from scratch, integration with the backend API should be fairly straightforward.

If you still want to run this project, I could write more detailed instructions, but be aware that this project is definitely not usable right now. Even if you would like to help finish the frontend, you should probably rather look at the repo linked above or write a new one from scratch.