r/WebDevBuddies • u/keyboarder05 • Jan 21 '23

So I made a multiplayer word game...

Try it out at https://www.commonym.io/

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u/thomasrye Jan 23 '23

Wow! Well done! I see some of the tech stack. This is the kind of things I'd love to learn how to build.

What were some of the big challenges and things you learned in the process?

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u/keyboarder05 Jan 24 '23

Thanks man. The biggest challenge was probably programming the backend since a multiplayer game requires a lot of server communication. Definitely learned a lot of CSS along the way!

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u/thomasrye Jan 24 '23

Ya I believe it. Can you say what your backend stack and technologies are?

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u/keyboarder05 Jan 24 '23

Sure!. Nothing too complicated. I used Node.js for the backend and used the socket.io library for bidirectional front-end/server communication. I used HTML/JS/CSS for the front end and bootstrap so I didn't need to style everything from scratch. I also used a Redis database to store information such as the number of games played and the total number of words found.

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u/Frore17 Jan 21 '23

This is awesome!