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• a not needed two player typing game.
• built for pain, and accidental learning.
• not a productivity tool.
• not a shitty tutorial-followed project.
• just raw websockets, redis, and some free time.

• → 3js (for that cool retro themed 3d landing environment)
• → react (for unicorn like frontend)
• → node.js (backjoint's pain)
• → tailwind (for makeup of that unicorn)
• → tiny state manager, big relief
• → redis (where all my bugs go to hide)

• every word = token → sent to backend
• space/enter acts as “word token” checkpoint
• backend judges you like the old gaming days → dumps state into redis(to reconnect) + a local roomManager
• u type shit instant L at the backend using Levenshtein distance (a jargon to just check the no of diff chars in two strings).
• real-time opponent cursor updates in the form of ghost cursor to give esports like feel.
• ping of both the players to make it feel as authentic as her :)

• storing the uuid in local storage; god its debug → 2-3 days of staring at codebase, doubting existence, removed the whole restart feature.. thinking it was the problem but..
• turns out it wasn’t my code, it was local storage being a clingy bastard (persistent storage per tab + window)
• learned nothing except just verify don't assume.
• works fine with diff browsers or an incognito on the same browser
• things never go as planned, majority of the features in the game were never planned
• front-end bugs are difficult to solve; atleast for my dumbazz$

• reconnect works… until it doesn’t, i cant just fix frontend; its not my cup of tea;
• on reconnect, the timer resets and starts again as it uses react state instead of zustand + i could have done it but i feel dumb doing front-end + it works kinda so mind not;
• this is a learning project, some game to be played by a village of minions , it has bugs because I am not god’s chosen programmer like him

• monkeytype doesn't have multiplayer, other sites are too cartoon-ish. (who am i to say)
• i am not a code monkey who does leetcode; (real proj>> lol)
• “todo apps” bana lu kya ab as a good proj?

so yeah. i wish i could have said i brought a revolution but all i bought is some confidence that yeah i can pull off websockets and redis. ahem ahem! :)

do whatever.
steal, fork, rewrite in bf, idc.
but if you turn this into a startup → i’ll curse your code with gypsy errors.
See LICENSE file for full details.