How I built a Multiplayer App in 3 days

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Reflect.net

As the Monday began I started reading documentation and looking into the tech I wanted to use. For most of the stack I went with things I know. But for the multiplayer part I had to read up and understand the core concepts behind Replicache. While reading I came across their hosted service Reflect. This was a perfect fit as time was of the essence and I would not have to build my own Replicache backend! It's completely free for 1000 user hours every month. As this project is supposed to be used during the 5 hours of Eurovision every year we can calculate the maximum amount of users we can have online for the full duration by simple division.

#Developer Tools #TypeScript Framework #Project Management 1 social mentions

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Excalidraw

Just before I went to sleep last Sunday I thought it would be fun to create an app for my friends and I where we can rate the Eurovision Song Contest participants live together. The idea was to have everyones votes being tallied up live as we make adjustments to the ratings. This led me into looking at Replicache as the solution. I've been interested in trying it out for a while now and this was the perfect project for it. I quickly threw together a sketch on Excalidraw so I would have something to go on for tomorrow.

#Sketching #Digital Whiteboard #Digital Drawing And Painting 212 social mentions

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Baselime

This is a bit late in the game I admit, but better late than never! I figured it could be cool to know how many visitors and rooms I have on this small little project. I went ahead and created an environment for this project on my Baselime account. Baselime is a serverless observability service, recently acquired by CloudFlare! I've used Baselime in a few of my smaller projects now and it's super nice to use. For this project I installed their React SDK and added a custom event that emits when a room is joined.

#Error Tracking #Exception Monitoring #Crash Reporting 1 social mentions