Set with Friends

This is the source code for Set with Friends, an online, multiplayer implementation of the real-time card game Set. Your goal is to find triplets of cards that follow a certain pattern as quickly as possible.

• Web version
• Official Discord

Technical Details

This app was built on a serverless stack primarily using the Firebase Realtime Database, along with Firebase Cloud Functions for more complex or sensitive operations. The frontend was built with React, with components from Material UI.

Code for the frontend is written in JavaScript and located in the src/ folder, while serverless functions are written in TypeScript and located in the functions/ folder.

The latest development version of the code is on the main branch. We use GitHub Actions to automate our build and deployment process on Netlify, after a new release is created with version number vA.B.C.

Contributing

This game is currently in maintenance mode, and we'll only accept bug fixes. I would recommend talking to us on Discord (link above) if you really want to see a new feature added. We also have monthly community meetings organized there.

To build the site for development:

• Install Node 20 and npm 10.
• Run npm install -g firebase-tools to globally install the Firebase CLI.
• Run npm install in the root folder to get dependencies.
• Run npm install in the functions folder.
• To start the project, run npm run develop. This runs a script, which is responsible for doing several things concurrently:
  • Build the TypeScript cloud functions in watch mode.
  • Start the Firebase Local Emulator Suite.
  • Start the frontend dev server with Vite + React.

The site can be opened at http://localhost:5173.

You should also be able to access the Emulator UI at http://localhost:4000, which contains useful information and allows you to inspect/modify the database during development. Changes to client code in src should be immediately visible, as well as changes to code in functions.

Other useful commands:

npm run lint
npm test

# Bundle the application into static assets.
npm run build
npm run build:preview

# Format the codebase with Prettier.
npm run format

# Run development server targeting setwithfriends-dev project.
npm run dev -- --mode preview

# Run development server targeting production data. This requires Eric to update
# the "Browser key (auto created by Firebase)" website restrictions at
# https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials to allow traffic.
npm run dev -- --mode production

Deployment

As mentioned above, the latest changes to the main branch are deployed automatically to Netlify using the npm run build script. If you try to run this locally, it will not work due to protections on the production database. Instead, you can preview a release build configured to connect to the local emulator suite using the npm run build:dev script.

The other parts of the app (serverless functions, database rules) are deployed to production using GitHub Actions on the main branch. The staging environment gets automatic deploy previews when CI on the main branch passes. It is useful for seeing the latest version of the app and making sure that nothing is broken before releasing to production.

License

Built by Eric Zhang and Cynthia Du.

All source code is available under the MIT License. We are not affiliated with Set Enterprises, Inc., or the SET® card game.