TypeFighter

Inspiration

I created this typeracer clone to learn Golang and React.js.

What it does

• Typing matches between players
• Players are automatically sorted into rooms
• Records and shows various statistics for registered players

How I built it

• Mimicked the calculations and the "input correctness" mechanism on both the frontend and backend for better latency.
• Created a room cleanup system that removes rooms a minute after the race has finished.
• Used PostgreSQL as the database for storing user information and game statistics.
• Sent "account confirmation" and "forgot your password" emails with the Mandrill API.
• Used Fluxxor.js to enforce the flux architecture with React.

Challenges I ran into

• Implementing authentication without any general purpose libraries like passport for node.
• Various problems associated with using a frontend router with react.

Built With

• go
• golang
• mailchimp
• postgresql
• react
• websockets