Play it here: mnswpr.com. This is the classic game Minesweeper built with vanilla web technologies (i.e., no framework dependency).
Technology Stack: HTML, JS, and CSS; Google Firebase for leader board store; Netlify for hosting
The web is a wonderful, free, and open platform to create and distribute value. You can use mnswpr in different ways:
The project has gone through years of existence. It started from 2019 when tooling was massively different. I have modernized it since and have witnessed how much easier and faster it is to build now - even without web frameworks or LLMs!
As of now the tooling I use are:
- Vite for bundling and development server
- Eslint for JS linting & CSS linting
- ESLint Stylistic for JS formatting
- Husky for git hooks
- PNPM for dependency & workspace management
- and a bunch of automation using scripts and Continuous Integration actions
To start development, you need node. I highly recommend pnpm to be used as well. Once you know you have this, you can do the following:
- Install dependencies:
pnpm i - Start the dev server:
pnpm run dev
👉 The live site is here: mnswpr.com
One day, while working in my home office, I heard loud and fast mouse clicks coming from our bedroom. It's my wife, playing her favorite game (Minesweeper) on a crappy website full of advertisements.
I can't allow this, it's a security issue. 🤣
But it is also an opportunity.
I wanted to give her the same game, with a similar leader board she can dominate. And this is also a chance for me to dig deeper into vanilla JS.
Can I make a page with complex interactions (more on this later) without any library dependency?
- JS is awesome ✨
- We don't always necessarily need JS frameworks (or TS) ✨
- Even subtle UI changes can improve user gameplay experience ✨
- There's more ways to break you're app than you are initially aware of ✨
- Competition motivates users to use your app more ✨
- Hash in bundled filenames help issues in browser caching (when shipping versions fast) ✨
Just keep building.
A project by Ayo