Pawned

Pawned is a browser game/chat app with accounts, channels, admin tools, chess games, chess training, and live Socket.IO updates.

Stack

• Client: React + Vite
• Server: Express + Socket.IO
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Production database: Aiven PostgreSQL

Deployment

The app is split across hosts:

• Vercel hosts the client.
• Render hosts the Node server, REST API, and Socket.IO.
• Aiven hosts PostgreSQL.

Vercel should point API and socket traffic to Render:

PAWNED_API_ORIGIN=https://your-render-app.onrender.com
VITE_SOCKET_ORIGIN=https://your-render-app.onrender.com

Render needs:

DATABASE_URL=postgres://avnadmin:YOUR_PASSWORD@HOST:PORT/defaultdb?sslmode=require
DEFAULT_ADMIN_PASSWORD=your-admin-password
NODE_ENV=production

Local Development

Local database URL lives in .env:

DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/pawned

Run database setup:

npm run init-db

Run server:

npm start

Build

Build client:

npm --prefix client run build

Render server build:

npm --prefix server install

Render start:

npm --prefix server start