Game of life

John Conway's "Game of life" made with Javascript ES6

Getting started

The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970

The "game" is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves, or, for advanced "players", by creating patterns with particular properties.

Rules

• Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.
• Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
• Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
• Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

Installing

Follow the instructions to run the game properly

Installing node/npm (or any package manager of your choice)

sudo apt-get install nodejs

Check npm version

node -v
npm -v

Installing GIT

sudo apt-get install git

Check GIT version

git --version

Getting a copy of the repository

git clone https://github.com/alexharmenta/gameoflife

cd gameoflife

Installing the dependencies

npm install

Test

Running tests

npm run test

Play the game

This will start a server on localhost:3000 to visualize the game

npm start

Built With

• ReactJS - The web framework used
• ES6 - Javascript

Authors

• Alex Armenta - Initial work - Alex Armenta

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.