longchess

Chess, but long - aka "Chong". Inspired by the following legendary photograph:

Setup

Dependencies

You really just need NodeJS to run this, though you will also need to set up port forwarding, find a cloud VM, or use a tunneling service like Ngrok to make your instance available to others. Once this is in place, just do the following:

1. Clone this repository. cd into the resulting directory and install the package dependencies by running npm install.
2. You're basically almost done - you just need to set up the WebSocket client. That's not as hard as it sounds; go to /public/javascripts/index.js. There should be a long list of global variables; find the one called WS_URL.
3. By default, WS_URL = localhost:3000; you'll want to change this to the address of whatever server you're running this on. It should be whatever address other people would use to access your instance; for example, if your instance is accessible at "http://www.chong.com', you'd set WS_URL = chong.com.
4. You may also need to modify WS_PROTOCOL to wss or ws depending on whether your server is HTTPS or HTTP respectively.