README.md

Geogames (working title)

Build and run

Running locally

First build the application:

mvn clean install

This will create a jar in the target directory. Run this jar as you would normally:

java -jar target/${NAME_OF_JAR_FILE}

This will start your server on port 8080. Go to localhost:8080 to play.

Running in development mode

Packaging and running the jar is slow. When developing locally it's sometimes desirable to decouple the front and backends so you can easily restart the backend after a change, or run the frontend in hot reload mode.

1. Run the server via intelliJ by running the main method in GeogamesApplication.
2. Then, head to the client dir in your terminal and run npm run dev

After these steps, you have the server running on 8080 and the frontend on 3000 pointing to your server. Updating and saving a file in the frontend reloads the frontend in milliseconds rather than minutes.