Duckception

An implementation of the Mafia/Werewolf party game to be played online.

Development

you will require the following dependencies

• Rust + Cargo
• Node + npm

 # Starts the rust backend, uses cargo to fetch and compile directories
 cargo run
 # Start parcel in watch mode, bundling into the dist directory
 npm start
 # Builds parcel production version of the web assets & production version of server in docker container
 ./build_full

Development commands will be located in the top level package.json file and in root level scripts.

Logging

Example of info logging, prints to stdout & stderr using https://crates.io/crates/env_logger for logging

RUST_LOG=trace cargo run 

Heroku deployment

https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/duckception

heroku container:login
heroku container:push web
heroku container:release web

Learning and development takeaways

Back end

• Learning Rust through developing a web server

  • borrow checker
  • memory management
  • meta-programming

• Multithreaded programming

  • Green Thread (Tokio runtime)
  • Mutexes
  • Atomic read/writes
  • Rust Futures + Async Await

• websocket / stream programming

• Deeper understanding of web protocols

  • HTTP headers
  • file caching
  • File compressions
  • Cookies
  • TLS

• Session based authentication

Front end

• "Modern" web app with Vanilla Javascript
• CSS animations
• A bit of SCSS
• Bundling Applications
  • tree shaking
  • javascript compilers / transpilers / minifiers