boardgame.io VS react-chessboard

If you're looking for something more low-level, I can recommend boardgame.io [1].

[1] https://boardgame.io/

Here's mine! https://skeoh.com/othello/

It's not nearly as polished but I had a lot of fun making it. It uses React and the now-no-longer-maintained https://boardgame.io/.

It could definitely be used to do that. However, there are better frameworks to accomplish this with many of the features needed for board games. https://boardgame.io is one of them. If anything, take a look at that and utilize some of their game logic and game state management ideas in Django.

Are you looking for: https://github.com/boardgameio/boardgame.io

Check out boardgame.io if you are not looking to do everything from scratch.

Also https://www.freeboardgames.org/ which hosts games built with the https://boardgame.io/ game engine.

I think you know best what you want to build yourself. :-)

If you separate the abstract interface for sending/receiving game states and its implementation, you can rely on an external service like hushfile to get started, and then switch to running a similar service yourself afterwards. Saves you from having to deploy and maintain the server initially.

Running a VPS wouldn't cost more than $5/mo.

Since nobody mentioned it, you may want to consider:

https://boardgame.io/

It is a service specifically for managing JSON game state.

But it comes with its own ideas, so your mileage may vary.

Have you looked at https://boardgame.io ? You’ll still have to deploy a backend but all the multiplayer functionality is already built in.

If you are more interested in the rules/logic side of things there’s also https://boardgame.io/

heres the repo:https://github.com/Clariity/react-chessboard