Technical Setup

kcapp consists of multiple parts, each connected together.

Frontend (views & routes) => Backend => Database

Frontend

Frontend contains two parts:

1. Frontend written using MarkoJS
   • All the code for can be found in the src directory
2. A Node webserver, running Express
   • Express contains all routes for each page

Frontend communicates with the Express webserver, which again send requests to the Backend The Node part is also running a socket.io server, which is used to push scores etc.

Backend

Backend is written using Golang This is a API containing endpoints to start matches, create players, insert scores, get statistics etc. Basically all operations to manipulate data in the database

Database

Database is running MySQL