game-leaderboard

A high-performance game leaderboard with redis + redis-server standalone + http api server used with nginx proxy + slack notifications

Installation

npm install

Before starting configure:

• config_example.json edit and rename to config.json. It contains configurations for tcp listen ports of http server and redis server. Also contains slack notify on a sample channel and user default auth used from the game's api requests on the initial verification
• nginx_example.conf example config for nginx for your domain/subdomain, this is used when nginx is used as a proxy on the backend
• redis-server.conf contains redis server configuration like tcp port & redis data directory
• http-server.js contains http listener along with tcp port
• game-leaderboard.js contains all functions for requests to be processed at redis with some checks using async promise bluebird Note: redis is saved on the data dir automatically

Start / Stop the app server

It uses nohup and requires to be on project dir.

npm start
npm stop

This leaderboard is being used currently for the game Crazy Particles