cuttle VS PixiJS

I got started in web development by building a full stack web app to play my favorite card game, Cuttle, pvp. Now that I'm working in the industry, I've open sourced the project and I continuously improve it with the help of other contributors. Here's the live deployment and here's the code.

The app is live at https://cuttle.cards and actively in (modest) use. We are continuously improving it, and you can practice essentially any part of the full stack by contributing. Here’s the code. The app is a Vue3 SPA with a nodejs backend (using sailsjs), and a postgres database, and we use cypress for the bulk of our automated testing.

Everyone is welcome! The best way to get started is to join us on discord where you can chat with me and the other devs about setting up and picking your first issue. Otherwise feel free to grab any of the issues on our github!

For one thing, you're welcome to join our discord where you can chat with me and other contributors (players too). I'd be happy to help you find a first issue to contribute. Regardless, feel free to check out our issue list to see if there are any you'd like to take a crack at.

For what it’s worth, I’ve open sourced my project (here’s the code) so if anyone would like to practice full stack web development skills by working on the oldest known combat card game, come check it out! We have five tournaments every year and open play sessions twice a week so your contributions will be used by real people in a live environment

Here’s the code

Cuttle is my favorite card game and I learned web development by creating cuttle.cards: an open source, fullstack pvp web app where people can play Cuttle online, for free! The app uses a postgresql database, a nodejs backend and a vue3 front-end. Here's the code.

I use websockets in my card game project: cuttle.cards as the way of updating all the players when someone makes a move. Here’s the code.

It’s a full stack web app with a Vue frontend and a nodejs backend built with the sailsjs framework. Here’s the code. The project is open source and under continuous development to improve the player experience.

We don’t have the full team structure that you’d see in a professional setting, but we have 5 core engineers including myself who work consistently on the project and a number of other contributors at various levels of experience. Here’s the repo. If any of that interests you, hit me up!

If you're into video game dev, then PixiJS is something you need to know about. It's a HTML5 game engine that provides a lightweight 2D library across all devices. This latest update has a new package structure, custom builds, graphics API overhaul, and lots more. You can read about all these changes in the PixiJS Migration Guide. Also big congrats to PixiJS for being part of the open source community for ten years now! 😮.

6. Pixi.js

https://pixijs.com/ and https://gsap.com/. All of the source code for my posts can be found at https://github.com/samwho/visualisations :)

For full web games (yeah, I come from the web, so I try to make my family proud), I will recommend PixiJS. It has great support for TypeScript and works very well with Vite. It's lighter than other game engines, so it's better for web games. But you will need to do a lot of things by yourself.

PixiJS (MIT/TypeScript) https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs

That approach works well for what I was trying to archive but I am planning on adding more functionality into the website. Hence in this article, let me rebuild the project using Pixi.js and it’s React binding, React Pixi.

https://openarena.live/

There's also a bunch of Javascript game engines: https://github.com/collections/javascript-game-engines

Of those, BabylonJS seems pretty powerful for 3D: https://www.babylonjs.com/games/

Or PixiJS for 2D: https://pixijs.com/

https://pixijs.com/ is more of a 2D rendering framework, but powerful and very fast