Once installed, we create a new directory called public that is going to be the root directory served. Now, to easily populate the dependencies property with the things we need, we will use npm: $ npm install express -save On my case, I filled up more than the necessary fields like my GitHub Repo and others, but it is fine with only a minified version (name, version, description and dependencies). It is recommended to place it in a new empty directory, I will call mine socket-uno. We create a package.json manifest file that describes our project.

We are just only going to use two dependencies, Express as the web framework and Socket.IO as the real-time engine. The first goal is to set up a simple HTML webpage that serves out an empty canvas. On the server-side, we manage a Node.JS server to attend all requests performed by users connected through SocketIO. In this article, I am going to explain step by step everything I came up to create the popular UNO game from scratch just in a simple canvas for the end-user that is going to play giving them a lightest client, just the browser.

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