peerjs VS boardgame.io

this app is using peerjs to connect peers over a webrtc connection. check out thier docs for more info. with webrtc, things like file-transfer, should be very performant compared to cloud storage providers... especially over LAN. network speed doesnt seems to be an issue i have experienced.

I'm using the client-side PeerJS https://peerjs.com/ library for networking. As the name may imply, a direct connection is established between two peers using WebRTC via "handshake" through an intermediary server they host - and, they provide source for the server as well. I have found it to be quite reliable, thus far.

You kind of sound like a beginner. The browser APIs are a bit painful to work with. It might be easier to use PeerJS: https://peerjs.com/

If you want you can use Preact. PreactJS is a lightweight alternative to ReactJS, designed for high performance and compatibility. is often used in applications where performance is critical and has a small footprint.

This opens up a lot of neat possibilities, and fortunately I found a very easy JavaScript library for handling multiplayer called PeerJS. The way you can send packets from player to player is very simple and something even a beginner to JavaScript could understand.

You might be able to eliminate the VPS by making it P2P using something like PeerJS [1]. PeerJS provides a free shared connection broker server.

[1]: https://peerjs.com/

Note: peerjs is a good starting point!

We use peer.js module to create a WebRTC connection between clients

Now that we have all the required boilerplate we can start building the actual game. For the communications between peers we are going to use PeerJS a peer-to-peer library built on top of WebRTC.

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/