connectfour

Features

• Sailsjs backend, database persistence via waterline and MySQL
• Connect Four opponent has two difficulty settings (easy/hard)
• Connect Four opponent uses minmax algorithm (shoutout to Lukas Vermeer for algorithmic inspiration)
• At the bottom of the app is a table showing the ten most recent games on the app, and it gets updated in real-time via websockets!

Install

• Make sure you have npm and node installed ( check with node -v and npm -v, if you don't have them, install with homebrew to avoid using sudo when installing npm packages)
• Install mysql if you don't have it, then fire up a server mysql.server start
• Install sails globally npm -g install sails
• clone the project from github
• run npm install in the project directory
• now the fun begins, run sails lift in the project directory, navigate to localhost:1337 and you should be good