Tic Tac Toe

In July 2016, I became interested in developing Single-Page Applications and came across AngularJS during my research, which I immediately started experimenting with. While experimenting, I discovered Angular 2, the successor to AngularJS. At that time, Angular 2 was still in the RC (Release Candidate) phase, and I decided to take a closer look at the library before its official release.

I noticed right away that Angular 2 was fundamentally different from AngularJS. Back then, even setting up a project was not a trivial task... After going through some tutorials and a lot of experimentation, I became convinced about Angular 2 and decided to implement a small multiplayer game using it.

I wanted to create a Tic-Tac-Toe game that could be played simultaneously and in real-time on multiple browsers. For this to work, a server needed to be able to notify the browsers whenever a player placed a symbol (X or O). socket.io presented itself as an easy-to-integrate library that abstracted the underlying communication using WebSockets.

On the server-side, Node.js was used to manage individual game rounds and to notify the browsers.