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Lichess TV watch party

Watch live games being played on lichess.org, and join the live chat to talk to other viewers. Join the featured rooms, or create a custom room for any specific game in play with a lichess game ID.

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  • The apps front-end is a create-react-app, hosted by vercel, and the back-end is an express server.
  • Moves and game data is collected from the lichess.org API.
  • The chatting is websocket based, built using socket.io.
  • The board is chessboardJSX.

Usage

You will need a lichess API authorization token

server:

cd server
yarn && node server.js

client:

cd client
yarn && yarn start

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

MIT

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