An implementation of the traditional chinese game Go, required for a SENG course.

install Node> 6.2

• Ensure the correct version of node is on your path if you have previously installed node

Install Chrome > 52.0

Install Gulp CLI

In Chrome Canary (52) install Live Reload Chrome Plugin (hot-reload browser side)

Navigate to the project directory

npm install

##Starting the app

npm start or gulp

The code will be pre-processed and run by gulp.

Navigate to localhost:3000

Click the livereload browser plugin icon to enable live reload of client code

Any changes (frontend,backend) will be instantly reflected upon save in the browser.

Notes :

• Changing core folder names will require you to change the patterns in the gulpfile for code refresh to work.

Start the app

Load the app.

Turn on the live-reload plugin

The page should refresh appropiately in all cases

• Change the color of the <p> object to blue in src/sass/index.scss

• Change the output of console.info() in src/scripts/frontend/index.js

• Change the port in src/scripts/backend/server.js

• Add a new file to the source. Make it do something.

• npm test will run all tests in the backend folder in the tests folder
• npm run test-client will run all frontend tests
  • More info on tests can be found in the TESTING.md documents in the tests folder
• npm run example-test will run the example test suite tests\example.js. See implementation for details

Mocha tests can be debugged in VS code. Their is a debugger set up already to run frontend and backend tests.

• see packages.md

Debugging with vs code's great debugger is setup. launch.json will debug the project\

Their are 6 global functions that log to different levels using winston

error()
warn()
info()
verbose()
debug()
silly()

console.log() has also been overwritten to log with info()

Please use console.info(), console.error(), etc