The goal of this project is to implement a multiplayer game using Socket.IO, ExpressJS and Phaser 3.

• Node.js
• ngrok, in case you want to expose the game, running on your local machine, to the internet

• Open a terminal and navigate to socketio-express-phaser3 root folder

• Execute the command below if you are running it for the first time

  npm install
  

• Run the following command to start the game server

  node server.js
  

• Open a browser and access http://localhost:5000

• The GIF below shows two users playing at the same time

  

• While the server is running in one terminal, open another terminal and run the following command

  ngrok http 5000
  

• Share the Forwarding url with your friends

  ...
  Forwarding     http://cf...0a.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:5000
  Forwarding     https://cf...0a.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:5000
  ...
  

• In a terminal, make sure you are in socketio-express-phaser3 root folder

• Run the following commands

  npm upgrade
  npm i -g npm-check-updates
  ncu -u
  npm install