Build An Online Chess Game

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction & setting up the project

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Startup files

Lecture 3: Creating the server

Lecture 4: Using Nodemon & ENV Variables

Lecture 5: Setting up the MySQL Database

Lecture 6: Setting up Redis

Lecture 7: Connect to Redis example (using current version of npm package)

Lecture 8: Setting up Ejs for our view engine

Chapter 2: User Login & Register

Lecture 1: Creating Register & Login Page

Lecture 2: Creating user & user_info tables in DB

Lecture 3: Creating the register controller

Lecture 4: Displaying form error messages

Lecture 5: 5. Creating the login controller

Chapter 3: Lobby Page

Lecture 1: Creating the lobby page

Lecture 2: Connecting to server with socket.io

Lecture 3: Creating functions to handle connections

Lecture 4: Getting user info from server

Lecture 5: Creating our spinner

Lecture 6: Implementing the chat functionality

Chapter 4: Games Page

Lecture 1: Creating the games page

Lecture 2: Displaying the games page

Lecture 3: Creating functions to handle room connections

Lecture 4: Adding functionality to games page part-1

Lecture 5: Adding functionality to games page part-2

Lecture 6: Adding functionality to games page part-3

Lecture 7: Adding functionality to games page part-4

Chapter 5: Room Page

Lecture 1: Creating the room page

Lecture 2: Initializing game variables

Lecture 3: Displaying the chess pieces

Lecture 4: user-connected event

Lecture 5: Creating functions to handle game start

Lecture 6: Displaying pawn possible moves

Lecture 7: Moving the pieces

Lecture 8: Getting rook possible moves

Lecture 9: Getting bishop possible moves

Lecture 10: Getting knight possible moves

Lecture 11: Getting king & queen possible moves

Lecture 12: Continuing with move logic

Lecture 13: Checkmate logic

Lecture 14: Displaying moves to other player part-1

Lecture 15: Displaying moves to other player part-2

Lecture 16: Updating the timer part-1

Lecture 17: Updating the timer part-2

Lecture 18: Fixing timer error

Lecture 19: Castling

Lecture 20: Finishing room page design

Lecture 21: Pawn promotion part-1

Lecture 22: Pawn promotion part-2

Lecture 23: King under attack warning

Lecture 24: El passant part-1

Lecture 25: El passant part-2

Lecture 26: Draw functionality

Lecture 27: Creating a procedure to update scores

Lecture 28: Finishing all socket events in the server

Lecture 29: Testing & finishing the game functionality

Chapter 6: Stats Page

Lecture 1: Games controller

Lecture 2: Creating the stats page

Lecture 3: Finishing games controller

Lecture 4: Played game moves pages

Chapter 7: Profile Page

Lecture 1: Finishing the user controller

Lecture 2: Creating the profile page

Lecture 3: Adding functionality to the profile page

Chapter 8: Hosting our game

Lecture 1: Docker files + SQL file + .gitignore file

Lecture 2: Hosting on Digital Ocean droplet using Docker