bric-a-brac

Overview

bric a brac is a 2 player variant of the atari classic breakout built using Hathora.

Running locally

To run locally:

• Have node installed
• Get a Hathora appId and appSecret via https://console.hathora.dev/
• Get a Hathora developer token (see https://hathora.dev/docs/guides/generate-developer-token)
• Create a .env file at the root with

HATHORA_APP_ID=<appId>
HATHORA_APP_SECRET=<appSecret>
DEVELOPER_TOKEN=<appToken>

• Start server: inside server directory run npm start (remember to npm install first)
• Start client: inside client directory run npm start (remember to npm install first)

Deploying

Server:

• Run hathora-cloud deploy --appId <appId> --roomsPerProcess 1 --planName tiny --transportType tls --containerPort 4000 --env '[{"name": "DEVELOPER_TOKEN", "value": "<appToken>"}]'

Client:

• cd to common and run npm install && npx tsc
• Then cd to client and npm run build
• Now you can deploy dist to any CDN like Vercel or Netlify