Implementing the Game Service and Discovering the Bruno API Client

TLDR

Creating a simple catan/game service that maintains state for a single game. Goal is now to have server properly maintain a single Catan game in memory until it is shutdown. Using a new API client called Bruno to make local requests against the service.

Main work

• Creating CatanGameService that will utilize the eventual state machine.
• Creating enums for the possible game states and game actions.

Challenges

• Introducing per-game persistence before game logic / API design is ironed out isn’t feasible.
• Still difficult to design solution without going through game flows manually and checking my reasoning.
• Naming is always hard.
• Creating models for game state, including subfields for player states.

Learnings

• Bruno is a promising alternative to Postman, now that Postman has been monitized.
  • Local first, so request collections and files are now committed to this repo.
  • Nice GUI that has enough features for my simple requests.
  • Downside: Proprietary data format for the requests, .bru, rather than some HTTP request standard spec.