OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://upland-chess.website/

Function:

Users create a new profile connecting their Upland & Lichess accounts to it.

Afterwards, they can:

• create chess challenges and wager an amount of their choice
• accept chess challenges that others submitted

How To Use:

On branch Main, enter Frontend directory on your shell & type in "npm start"

** If you run into an error like "error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported", enter the following cmd into your shell and try again: set NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider **

Branches:

• Main: For local testing & development
• Frontend: All code for frontend -> Deployed on Vercel [Built w/ Node.js & React]
• Backend: All code for backend -> Deployed on Heroku [Built w/ Flask & Python]
• Akhil: Test branch

Packages:

• pandas
• Flask
• openpyxl
• berserk
• Flask_cors
• node.js ("npm i" in Frontend directory)

This app is reliant on the functionality of the Upland & Lichess APIs. (For the most part, it works fine.)

How Escrow Funds are Resolved:

• 80% winner
• 10% loser
• 10% developers

ngrok

For local testing I used ngrok to receive webhook requests:

• [ngrok http --domain=vocal-shepherd-select.ngrok-free.app 5000] <- When connecting to app on Upland, this webhook forwards the request to localhost:5000

First Problems/Tasks when Building App

Had to learn:

• Rest APIs (Berserk, figuring out authentication, escrows, etc)
• Flask (routing msgs to backend)
• Python (libraries like openpyxl, pandas, http.client, making API calls)
• React.js + a little CSS
• Webhooks (forwarding, tunnels <- This took too long)
• Integration!!!
• Heroku
• Vercel
• CSS, HTML, JS Libraries
• A bunch of stuff along the way

Things to work on:

• RESET PASSWORD OPTION
• Using local storage to shift between pages
• Create spinning icon that will momentarily show on the site when reset button is clicked
• Make the reset button a component of its own
• "Improve UI"