I'm in!

[Addyvan]

If you are like me, it's nice to dig around and follow along when source code is provided. There were a couple hurdles getting running on this one so I figured I'd share.

Server side

This is using a newer-ish version node.js 's import syntax so you will need to use nvm to swap over to somewhere around 15.8.0 using nvm. You can install nvm using:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install.sh | bash

Once installed:

nvm install 15.8.0

Simon seems to have removed server/package.json. I was able to fill in the blanks and this worked fine for me:

{
  "name": "server",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "gl-matrix": "^3.3.0",
    "socket.io": "^3.1.1"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node index.mjs"
  }
}

Once you have that set done you can run the following to start the server:

npm install
node index.mjs

Leave this running in a separate terminal.

Client side

Install http-server

sudo npm install -g http-server

Then run a simple http-server to serve up the files. If you don't do this you will get CORS issues.

$ http-server
Starting up http-server, serving ./
Available on:
  http://127.0.0.1:8081
  http://192.168.1.129:8081
  http://10.0.7.10:8081
  http://192.168.96.1:8081
Hit CTRL-C to stop the server

I was able to see the login screen, walk around and kill some monsters named after my username lol.

[Addyvan]

[Unusualiscool]

I'm stuck on installing nvm, its saying wget is not a recognized command, any help?

[simondevyoutube]

This is amazing work, thank you so much for supplying these instructions!

[Addyvan]

I'm stuck on installing nvm, its saying wget is not a recognized command, any help?

@Unusualiscool
Are you on linux?

If you are on windows you can just make sure you are running the latest node version (15.*) and skip those steps altogether.

[Unusualiscool]

now I'm stuck on installing the server, I type in "npm install
node index.mjs" it says this error:
npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/index.mjs - Not found
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 'index.mjs@*' is not in the npm registry.
npm ERR! 404 You should bug the author to publish it (or use the name yourself!)
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.

any help? I'm doing this on a windows computer.

[Unusualiscool]

ok Its not detecting the package.json

[Unusualiscool]

I'm stuck on installing nvm, its saying wget is not a recognized command, any help?

@Unusualiscool
Are you on linux?

If you are on windows you can just make sure you are running the latest node version (15.*) and skip those steps altogether.

now it's giving me this error, "websocket.js:87 WebSocket connection to 'ws://localhost:3000/socket.io/?EIO=4&transport=websocket' failed: Error in connection establishment: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED"
I found this by doing inspect element when on a locally hosted server

[ITAndy23]

@Unusualiscool
What did you do to get the websocket error?
After you built the package.json inside the server folder per @Addyvan instructions, you should run
npm install
via command prompt while in the server directory.
That should install what you need.
Then run
npm start
while in that directory. Leave that running.
In a new command prompt window, change directory over to the client folder and run:
npm install -g http-server
Then run
http-server
The window will tell you the url and port you can hit from your browser. For me it was,
http://127.0.0.1:8080/

[UnusualGitHub]

@Unusualiscool
What did you do to get the websocket error?
After you built the package.json inside the server folder per @Addyvan instructions, you should run
npm install
via command prompt while in the server directory.
That should install what you need.
Then run
npm start
while in that directory. Leave that running.
In a new command prompt window, change directory over to the client folder and run:
npm install -g http-server
Then run
http-server
The window will tell you the url and port you can hit from your browser. For me it was,
http://127.0.0.1:8080/
@ITAndy23
I tried npm start and it's giving me a error, this is the error: ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME

[Kadajett]

I'm stuck on installing nvm, its saying wget is not a recognized command, any help?

try curl instead? Or install wget.

[UnusualGitHub]

@Kadajett I fixed that, I just need help on the npm start part, it's saying: "ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME"

[Kadajett]

@Kadajett I fixed that, I just need help on the npm start part, it's saying: "ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ESM_URL_SCHEME"

I am dead tired, but I am going to submit a draft PR tonight solidifying the base of the application. If you could keep an eye out, some extra thought would be great. I didn't ask permission from simondev before starting the rewrite. Sorry 🙏

[Kadajett]

I have a PR up now. It's gonna take a bit to get it all working though. Anyone else familiar with TS, you are more than welcome to start tackling some of the errors as well.
😄

[ettoreleandrotognoli]

Thanks @Addyvan, your server/package.json really helped.
I'm playing with docker-swarm at home, and I hosted the application
Feel free to play https://mmorpg-client.etto.cloudns.cl/

[thush]

This is amazing work, thank you so much for supplying these instructions!

Yes...Amazing that we can find good documentation ,to support a projects..
Kudos and keep it up for the steps given..