Tactical Tide

An Online multiplayer chess game. You can play against your friend or against the computer.

Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Installation

About The Project

There are 2 modes in this game.

1. Play with friend (Need to register first)
   
2. Play against computer
   

Built With

• NodeJS
• ExpressJS
• MongoDB
• ReactJS
• Socket.io
• Chess.js

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Installation

Fork, then download or clone the repo.

  git clone https://github.com/krtk-097/Tactical-Tide.git

For the backend, go to backend folder and install the dependencies once via the terminal.

  cd backend
  npm install

For the frontend, go to frontend folder and install the dependencies once via the terminal.

  cd frontend
  npm install

Now create .env file and fill all the details.

MONGO_URI = PUT_YOUR_MONGODB_ATLAS_CONNECTION_STRING_HERE
JWT_SECRET = PUT_JWT_SECRET_HERE
GMAIL_USER = YOUR_GMAIL_ADDRESS
GMAIL_PASS = YOUR_GMAIL_PASS

Now you are ready to run the server and frontend.