Akka Chess

Akka Chess is a sample application that illustrates building a complete, resilient, automatically scalable, event-sourced application using the Akka SDK.

Feature Progress

The following is a list of planned features/components and their status:

Backend

• Match entity
• Chess rule enforcement
• Match list view
• Match archive view
• HTTP service endpoint
• Google pubsub event publisher
• Secure HTTP service endpoint with JWT
• Reject out of turn moves before submitting command

Web UI

• Render chessboard
• React to move updates from Google Pubsub
• Add Github OAuth authentication to site
• Finish theming/layout for the site
• Mint JWT to be used as bearer token for service auth
• Display move log when looking at active chessboard
• Display match history on landing/dashboard
• Facilitate player invites to play (before match starts)