This prototype contains all necessary basic features to start up a NodeJS Typescript web-based game project inspired by http://surviv.io/ It includes:

• Network solution using Websocket
• Server Reconciliation / Client-side Prediction
• Entity Interpolation
• Messaging using Binary Array with bit-buffer
• Collision Detection using SAT.js
• Rendering with PixiJS
• Webpack configurations for both client and server
• Optional Heroku configuration

Make sure you have nodejs and npm installed. Install all necessary packages with

npm install

Then run:

npm run build:dev

which should build server and client in the dist/ folder. To run the server:

npm run start

Then open a client at https//localhost:8080/

package.json comes with all necessary commands to build the project on Heroku. When git pushed to Heroku, heroku-postbuild command is automatically called, building the project remotely with prod configuration. To set up your heroku project, please follow the instruction here

Use the commands

npm run watch:client

and

npm run watch:server

to automatically rebuild locally server and client while editing the typescript code.