conorriches/onlinemultiplayeruno

Uno, but online and multiplayer! :tada:

Online Multiplayer Uno

With House Rules!

A fun project, written by Conor Riches

Running

This project is built with React and NodeJS. The card images are from Wikipedia. House rules are enforced!

Prerequisites

• You'll need NodeJS installed which includes npm.
• Install pm2 globally

Installing

• Clone
• cd online-multiplayer-uno
• npm i
  • this installs node_modules
• npm run build
  • this creates performant client code
• npm start
  • under the hood this runs pm2 [start|restart|stop] ecosystem.config.js --env production
  • this will keep the server up and running
  • run pm2 list to keep an eye for any restarts (indicating an error)
• Visit the URL - default is localhost:5000 for dev and port 80 for production.

Development

This uses websockets for communication.

/src/server/index.js is where the fun starts.

When running locally, you need to run both the server and client separately:

• This enables hot reloading of your work, so no need to refresh
• Also means you don't need to run npm build every time you make a change

onlinemultiplayeruno's Issues

Penalty passing/addition fails with different colours

When a player is subject to a +2 penalty and holds a +2 of a different colour they should be able to play it to add 2 to the penalty for the next player. Clicking the card has no effect

[Pre/Ap]pend newly drawn cards

New cards are appended to your hand. When drawing large numbers of cards this may cause scrolling to see what the newly drawn card is and if it can be played.

Suggest that newly drawn cards are prepended to your hand so that they’re always visible irrespective of screen or hand size.

Action buttons

Suggestion:
Move action buttons to between the deck/discard piles and the players hand

Draw card - consistency

Sometimes a player can draw up to 5 cards whilst having a playable card in their hand. Other times they can't draw a card.

Look to fix the logic behind limiting drawing

Play progresses backwards

The order of play is the other way round to that indicated by the arrows between player names