c6ol: Connect6 Online

A web app for playing Connect6 games online, built with Rust frameworks Leptos and axum.

Features

• Easy Setup: Submit a passcode to start a game. Then send a link to your friend, who submits a different passcode to join the game.
• Infinite Board: The board is 32,767x32,767 in size, with drag & zoom support. Generally¹, you never worry about hitting the border.
• Export Permanent Link: Click Export in the game menu to open a copy of the game in a new tab for analysis. Right click or long press to copy a permanent link. Feel free to share it with others or save it for your collection!
• Requests: Request your opponent to retract the previous move or reset the game (clear the stones and optionally swap colors), or offer a draw (why do this when you have infinite space and time?).
• Manual Claim of Win: Watch your friend not notice their six-in-a-row and win before them!
• Local Play: You can choose to play locally. A local game is saved in the browser's local storage.
• Keyboard Control: It's possible to control the app with keyboard only.

Screenshots

Setup (Linux)

Install Rust 1.88+ and Node.js. To develop, run:

git clone https://github.com/yescallop/c6ol
cd c6ol
# In one terminal:
cd server
cargo run
# In another:
cd client
npm install
npm run dev

To build for deployment, run:

cd client
npm install
npm run build
cd ../server
cargo build --release
cd ..

To deploy, copy target/release/c6ol-server and client/dist to a directory on the server, cd into it and run:

./c6ol-server --listen [::]:8086 --serve-dir dist --db-file c6ol.db

A Connect6 Online server will be listening at port 8086 on all available interfaces, serving static files under dist, loading games from and saving games to c6ol.db.

Footnotes

1. It is good sportsmanship to start near the center and to place stones near existing ones. ↩