Play Minesweeper Online for Free

Play it here: mnswpr.com. This is the classic game Minesweeper built with vanilla web technologies (i.e., no framework dependency).

Technology Stack: HTML, JS, and CSS; Google Firebase for leader board store; Netlify for hosting

Usage

The web is a wonderful, free, and open platform to create and distribute value. You can use mnswpr in different ways:

as a deployed web app
as a library with npm i @ayo-run/mnswpr
as a web component (coming soon).

Tooling

The project has gone through years of existence. It started from 2019 when tooling was massively different. I have modernized it since and have witnessed how much easier and faster it is to build now - even without web frameworks or LLMs!

As of now the tooling I use are:

Vite for bundling and development server
Eslint for JS linting & CSS linting
ESLint Stylistic for JS formatting
Husky for git hooks
PNPM for dependency & workspace management
and a bunch of automation using scripts and Continuous Integration actions

Development

To start development, you need node. I highly recommend pnpm to be used as well. Once you know you have this, you can do the following:

Install dependencies: pnpm i
Start the dev server: pnpm run dev

You just want to play?

👉 The live site is here: mnswpr.com

Background

One day, while working in my home office, I heard loud and fast mouse clicks coming from our bedroom. It's my wife, playing her favorite game (Minesweeper) on a crappy website full of advertisements.

I can't allow this, it's a security issue. 🤣

But it is also an opportunity.

I wanted to give her the same game, with a similar leader board she can dominate. And this is also a chance for me to dig deeper into vanilla JS.

Can I make a page with complex interactions (more on this later) without any library dependency?

What I have learned:

JS is awesome ✨
We don't always necessarily need JS frameworks (or TS) ✨
Even subtle UI changes can improve user gameplay experience ✨
There's more ways to break you're app than you are initially aware of ✨
Competition motivates users to use your app more ✨
Hash in bundled filenames help issues in browser caching (when shipping versions fast) ✨

Just keep building.
A project by Ayo

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