Overview of React Hangman

Overview of React Hangman

by John Vincent


Posted on May 3, 2020


Hangman

Hangman

Hangman is a responsive, Progressive Web application version of the popular Hangman game built using React.

Live Deployment

Hangman at Digital Ocean

Technical

Technologies

Client

Server

Production Deployment

Node Server Deployment

See Overview of Deploying of a Node Server for an Overview of the deployment of the Node Server used by Hangman

Website Updates

For extensive discussions regarding www.johnvincent.io, please see Overview of johnvincent.io website

Website Validation Reference

Update

Update the OS, please see Maintaining Ubuntu Droplet

Favicons

For details, see Favicons

Made favicons as usual.

	<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="<%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.HOME_URL %>/apple-touch-icon.png">
	<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="<%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.HOME_URL %>/favicon-32x32.png">
	<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="<%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.HOME_URL %>/favicon-16x16.png">
	<link rel="manifest" href="<%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.HOME_URL %>/app-manifest.json">
	<link rel="mask-icon" href="<%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.HOME_URL %>/safari-pinned-tab.svg" color="#5bbad5">
	<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#2d89ef">
	<meta name="msapplication-config" content="<%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.HOME_URL %>/browserconfig.xml">
	<meta name="theme-color" content="#ffffff">

Notice using HOME_URL from the environment.

app-manifest.json

Notice the subfolder

{
    "name": "Hangman",
    "short_name": "Hangman",
    "icons": [
        {
            "src": "/android-chrome-192x192.png",
            "sizes": "192x192",
            "type": "image/png"
        },
        {
            "src": "/android-chrome-512x512.png",
            "sizes": "512x512",
            "type": "image/png"
        }
    ],
    "theme_color": "#ffffff",
    "background_color": "#ffffff",
		"display": "standalone",
		"start_url": "index.html",
		"orientation": "landscape"
}

browserconfig.xml

Notice the subfolder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<browserconfig>
    <msapplication>
        <tile>
            <square150x150logo src="/mstile-150x150.png"/>
            <TileColor>#ffc40d</TileColor>
        </tile>
    </msapplication>
</browserconfig>

Create .env files

Development

Create .env

NODE_ENV=development

HOME_URL=http://localhost:9432

SERVER_URL=http://localhost:9444

...

Production

Create /save-env/hangman/client.env

NODE_ENV=production

HOME_URL=https://www.hangman.johnvincent.io

SERVER_URL=https://www.apis.johnvincent.io

...

Add Subdomain

Add subdomain, please see Configuring Google Domains

Add

Type: A
TTL: 1h
Data: 104.236.194.244

for each of

www.hangman
hangman

Verify subdomains

dig www.hangman.johnvincent.io
dig hangman.johnvincent.io

Configure HTTP Nginx

For details, please see Configure non-SSL Nginx

cd /var/www
sudo mkdir -p hangman/html/.well-known

Create index.html

sudo vi /var/www/hangman/html/index.html
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Welcome to hangman!</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Success! The server block is working!</h1>
    </body>
</html>

Permissions

sudo chown -R jv:jv /var/www/hangman/html
cd /var/www/hangman/html
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0755
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0644

Server block

sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/http/hangman
server {
  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;

  server_name hangman.johnvincent.io www.hangman.johnvincent.io;
  root /var/www/hangman/html;
  index index.html;

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
  }
  location ~ /.well-known {
    allow all;
  }
}

Enable Server Block

Add to bin/enable-http and bin/enable-https

enable-http

Restart Nginx

nginx-restart

Test from browser

http://www.hangman.johnvincent.io
http://hangman.johnvincent.io

SSL Certificates

sudo letsencrypt certonly -a webroot --webroot-path=/var/www/hangman/html -d hangman.johnvincent.io -d www.hangman.johnvincent.io

Create

sudo vi /etc/nginx/snippets/ssl-hangman-johnvincent.io.conf

ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/hangman.johnvincent.io/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/hangman.johnvincent.io/privkey.pem;

Configure HTTPS Nginx

For details, please see Configure SSL Nginx

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/https
sudo vi hangman
server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
  	server_name hangman.johnvincent.io www.hangman.johnvincent.io;
    return 301 https://www.hangman.johnvincent.io$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
		include snippets/ssl-hangman-johnvincent.io.conf;
    include snippets/ssl-params.conf;

    server_name hangman.johnvincent.io;
    return 301 https://www.hangman.johnvincent.io$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
    include snippets/ssl-hangman-johnvincent.io.conf;
    include snippets/ssl-params.conf;
    include h5bp/basic.conf;

		root /var/www/hangman/html;
    index index.html;

    server_name www.hangman.johnvincent.io;

   location / {
      try_files $uri /index.html;
    }
    location = /analytics.js {
        proxy_pass https://www.google-analytics.com;
        expires 31536000s;
        proxy_set_header Pragma "public";
        proxy_set_header Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public";
    }   
    location /junk {
        try_files $uri =503;
    }
		location ~*  \.(svg|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js|pdf)$ {
      add_header Cache-Control "max-age=31536000";
      access_log off;
  #   expires 30d;
    }
}

Enable Https

cd bin
./enable-https

Test from Browser

http://www.hangman.johnvincent.io
http://hangman.johnvincent.io

https://www.hangman.johnvincent.io
https://hangman.johnvincent.io

All show the simple index.html file that was created earlier.

Test SSL Certificates

Ensure all scores are A+

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=hangman.johnvincent.io
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.hangman.johnvincent.io

SSH to Github

For details, please see SSH to Github

Deployment Script

bin/deploy-hangman-app

#!/bin/sh
#
#  script to get, build and deploy Hangman to nginx
#
# setup ssh to github
#
echo "setup ssh to github"
eval "$(ssh-agent)"
ssh-add -k ~/.ssh/id_github
#
cd
cd tmp

#
CLONES_DIR="/home/jv/clones/hangman"
DOCROOT_DIR="/var/www/hangman/html"
SAVE_ENV_DIR="/home/jv/save-env/hangman-app"
#
echo "Removing clones directory $CLONES_DIR"
rm -rf $CLONES_DIR
#
echo "Creating clones directory $CLONES_DIR"
mkdir -p $CLONES_DIR
cd $CLONES_DIR
#
echo "Git clone desired repositories to $CLONES_DIR"
git clone git@github.com:johnvincentio/hangman-project $CLONES_DIR

#
#  Make Hangman Client
#
# copy .env file
#
echo "Copy Hangman client .env file to $CLONES_DIR/client"
cp -r $SAVE_ENV_DIR/client.env $CLONES_DIR/.env

echo "Make the Hangman client"
cd $CLONES_DIR

echo "Npm install the Hangman client $CLONES_DIR"
npm install
#
echo "Make Hangman client production"
npm run production
#
echo "Minify $CLONES_DIR/dist/index.html"
cp dist/index.html dist/index.work
html-minifier dist/index.work --remove-comments --output dist/index.html
rm dist/index.work

#
# Delete files in nginx docroot
#
echo "Delete files in Nginx Docroot $DOCROOT_DIR"
rm -rf $DOCROOT_DIR/*

#
# Copy client files to nginx
#
echo "Copy client files to $DOCROOT_DIR"
cp -r $CLONES_DIR/dist/* $DOCROOT_DIR

#
# set permissions
#
echo "Setting permissions on $DOCROOT_DIR"
sudo chown -R jv:jv $DOCROOT_DIR
sudo chmod 0755 $DOCROOT_DIR
find $DOCROOT_DIR -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0755 # For directories
find $DOCROOT_DIR -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0644 # For files

#
echo "Restarting Nginx"
nginx-restart

#
echo "Completed"

Deploy

cd
cd bin
./deploy-hangman-app

Test

https://www.hangman.johnvincent.io/
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