ZakuChess, an open source web game built with Django, htmx and Tailwind
A while ago I started this side project to test if I could build a rich User Interface that would have about the same level of responsiveness than a "SPA-like" app, but using only htmx[1]... I still have plenty of stuff in my roadmap, but today it's in a playable state and I thought it could be interesting to share it - as it may be a nice demonstration of a relatively rich user interface powered by htmx :-) --> https://zakuchess.com As for the stack: it's built mostly with Django, htmx and Tailwind CSS. It uses a SQLite database, and is hosted (for free) at Fly. The characters'…
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A while ago I started this side project to test if I could build a rich User Interface that would have about the same level of responsiveness than a "SPA-like" app, but using only htmx[1]... I still have plenty of stuff in my roadmap, but today it's in a playable state and I thought it could be interesting to share it - as it may be a nice demonstration of a relatively rich user interface powered by htmx :-) --> https://zakuchess.com As for the stack: it's built mostly with Django, htmx and Tailwind CSS. It uses a SQLite database, and is hosted (for free) at Fly. The characters' graphics come from the open source game Battle For Wesnoth. I'm afraid my skills in terms of design are rather suboptimal, so the quality of the design is... well, let's just say it's playable ahah The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/olivierphi/zakuchess#readme Apart from the source code itself, the repo's README also gives a bit more details about the various packages I used. 1. htmx: https://htmx.org/
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