JS Troopers is a Nodejs implementation of a player (bot) for Lugo game.

This bot was made using the Node Client Player.

Use this bot as a starting point to a new one.

• Docker (https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/)
• Docker Compose (https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/)
• (optional) NodeJS with NPM (https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/)

Are you familiar with Lugo? If not, before continuing, please visit the project website and read about the game.

1. Checkout the code or download the most recent tag release

2. Install the dependencies and compile the Typescript: keep the watcher service ALWAYS running to keep your code ready to be run. When this service is not running, ‼️ your code changes will NOT be executed ‼️

   docker-compose -f watcher-compose.yml up

3. Test it out: Before any change, make the JS Troopers play to ensure you are not working on a broken code.

   docker-compose up

   and open http://localhost:8080/ to watch the game.

4. Now, make your changes: change the methods in current bot. You may also need to change some settings in the main file

5. Play again to see your changes results:

   docker-compose up

6. Are you ready to compete? Build your Docker image:

   docker build -t my-super-bot .

7. Before pushing your changes

   MY_BOT=my-super-bot docker-compose --file docker-compose-test.yml up

If you want to run the NodeJS code in your machine instead of inside the container, you definitely can do this.

The command to start locally is BOT_NUMBER=1 BOT_TEAM=home npm run start. However, when you run the Docker compose file, all players from both teams will start. Then, if you run another bot directly from your machine, it will not be allowed to join the game.

But you also cannot start your bot before the game server has started.

You have two options to run your bot locally.

You can edit the file docker-compose.yml and comment out the player that you want to run locally.

The game server will wait all 11 players from both teams to connect before starting the game.

You can start only the game server with the command game_server. The game will wait for the players. Then, you start your local bot (BOT_NUMBER=1 BOT_TEAM=home npm run start), and finally start the rest of the players with the command docker-compose up