9. Building a Multiplayer Game Server
In this chapter, we will build a game server to house the logic for our games and provide a communal experience for the players. Keeping in the spirit of the games we have been developing, we will be using the server-side JavaScript framework Node.js for our backend work. This will allow us to deeply integrate between our game and server-side code. Assisting Node.js will be the socketing library Socket.IO.
Introduction to Node.js
Node.js is an asynchronous server-side JavaScript environment built on the Google V8 JavaScript engine. V8, which is written in C++, is the engine that runs JavaScript in the Google Chrome browser and is known for its speed. Node treats items such as sockets, HTTP, TCP/UDP, and file ...
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