RubyConf 2018 - Building web-based board games only with Ruby by Yoh Osaki

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Channel: Confreaks · 2018 · Science & Technology

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RubyConf 2018 - Building web-based board games only with Ruby by Yoh Osaki

This talk explains how to build web-based board games without JavaScript but only with Ruby. Web programmers are forced to write front-end code using JavaScript. And interaction with the client-side and server-side grows increasingly complex. Board game which has rich UI and communicate in real-time is one of the applications which needs such requirements.

Opal is a compiler converts from Ruby to JavaScript. I created some gems for Opal as follow as.

Virtual DOM
Isomorphic web programming framework
dRuby implementation on browser
I show you a web- board game demonstration using these gems.

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