Xtralife-server

Xtralife-server is a full-blown backend server for games.

This module only bootstraps the system: its goal is to help with configuration, then start a cluster of server processes.

Dependencies

Redis, Mongodb and Elasticsearch are all required to run Xtralife-server.

Use docker to supply all the necessary database services

docker run --name redis -d -p 6378:6379 redis
docker run --name mongo -d -p 27018:27017 mongo
docker run --name elastic -d -p 9200:9200 elasticsearch:2

The default TCP ports specified in config/dev.coffee are non-standard for redis and mongodb, to avoid any confusion between dev and production environments.

Configuration

This module contains all the configuration of your server in the ./config folder. We provide a ./config/dev.coffee conf file for the standard docker developement environment.

We also provide a ./config/production.coffee conf file for the standard docker-compose xtralife-server.

The configuration file is chosen according to process.NODE_ENV and defaults to dev. It overrides ./config/default.coffee settings.

note: Batches/hooks are just normal node modules required in the configuration files, to help with source code management.

docker build -t xtralife/xtralife-server . to build the Docker image

To run the server with links to the above containers :

docker run --rm -it --link redis:redis --link mongo:mongodb --link elastic:elastic -e NODE_ENV=production -p 2000:2000 -v ~/logs:/server/logs -v ~/config:/server/config xtralife/xtralife-server

~/config must contain a copy (customized) of ./config for this command to run. ~/logs will contain log files