@react-chess/chessground

Chessground ·

Chessground is a React Wrapper package for the original Chessground UI developed for lichess.org. This project also contains zero chess logic, please visit chess.js for validation/generation.

This package is in early stages of development, thus usage of this package in TypeScript is highly recommended.

Installation

Currently the package has peerDependencies on react: ^16.8.0 || ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0 and react-dom: ^16.8.0 || ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0.

# If you are using npm:
npm install @react-chess/chessground

# If you are using yarn:
yarn add @react-chess/chessground

Documentation

After installing, the component can be default imported and it has 4 optional props:

• width: number defaults to 900, determines width of the chessboard in pxs

• height: number defaults to 900, determines height of the chessboard in pxs

• config: Config defaults to {}, determines various configuration properties of Chessground

• contained: boolean defaults to false, when enabled renders the chessboard in a 100% width & height div.

Renders a simple 900 x 900 board, with pieces in their default position:

import Chessground from "@react-chess/chessground";

// these styles must be imported somewhere
import "chessground/assets/chessground.base.css";
import "chessground/assets/chessground.brown.css";
import "chessground/assets/chessground.cburnett.css";

ReactDOM.render(<Chessground />, document.getElementById("root"));