Soba - Backend

Soba is a simple React-based web game engine. By using higher-order components, Soba manages the generic socket.io messages and injecting additional functions as props. Integrating with Soba allows web games to be made more lightweight.

This is a library function for the Node backend contrasting the React front-end using Soba.

For more information regarding game design and how Soba works, see the main repository.

Applications using Soba

There is a starting example in this repository to start off with.

The following are other projects that use Soba.

1. Articulate
   • Game Link: https://articulate-game.herokuapp.com/
   • Source Code
     • Front-end: https://github.com/chriz218/articulate
     • Back-end: https://github.com/zhenghung/articulate-be

Dependency

1. socket.io

$ npm install --save socket.io

Installation and Quickstart

1. Install the npm module in your NodeJS backend server project root directory

   $ npm install --save zhenghung/soba-be

2. Import the function and use it in your io.on callback. An example template index.js file is as follows:

   This requires a few dependencies which can be installed with this

   $ npm install --save http express socket.io cors

   index.js

   const http = require('http');
   const express = require('express');
   const socketio = require('socket.io');
   const cors = require('cors');
   const soba = require('soba-be');
       
   const app = express();
   const server = http.createServer(app);
   const io = socketio(server);
      
   app.use(cors());
   app.use(express.json());
      
   io.on('connect', (socket) => {
       soba(io, socket, {logging: true});
      
       /** Add more socket.on listener handlers here*/
   });
      
   server.listen(process.env.PORT || 5000,() => console.log(`Server has started.`));

Configuration

Custom configuration can be tweaked as it it passed as the third argument into the function. soba(io, socket, config)

Default configurations

{
    logging: false
}