boardgame.io

State management and React libraries for turn based games.

The goal of this framework is to allow a game author to essentially translate the rules of a game to a series of simple functions that describe how the game state changes when a particular move is made, and the framework takes care of the rest. You will not need to write any networking or backend code.

Features

• Seamless game state management across client and server.
• Strong emphasis on ease of prototyping.
• Debug UI to visualize state and simulate game moves even before you build UI components for your game.
• Online multiplayer with realtime updates.
• Optimistic updates: game state is updated immediately on the client, but verified on the server.

Upcoming

• Lobby to create/join games.
• Game logs with time-travel capability.
• More complex game types with ability to customize.
• React components for common game elements (cards, dice etc.).

Full Documentation: link

Installation

npm install boardgame.io

Disclaimer

This is not an official Google product.