Djangochess

Djangochess is an online chess platform with a custom python chess engine implemented using Django, Channels, Redis and Bootstrap.

It features a lobby system in which anyone with a link can join and choose color of pieces. If any logged in player chooses a side everyone in the lobby will see player's nick appear next to the side name. Only the game owner can start a game. Then everyone is redirected to game's chessboard where players play and others can spectate.

Configuration

In order to run this project you need to install python dependencies:

• django
• channels
• channels_redis
• django-widget-tweaks

$ python -m pip install <package-name>

Then install docker and run Redis at port 6379:

$ docker run -p 6379:6379 -d redis:5

Note: You need to have Redis launched for the channel layers to work. Otherwise there will be WebSocket errors thrown in the developer console.

Now you can run:

$ python manage.py migrate

and then:

$ python manage.py runserver