Support multibrowser synchronized state

[teisenbe]

My friends and I have been playing for a bit, but one of us moved out of town. We wanted to still be able to play, so we've been trying to make it easier to share the game state over the internet. We found your webapp and really liked the idea, but sharing it with screen-sharing wasn't quite as good of an experience as we would like.

We looked into adding support for synchronizing the state based off of the existing localStorage support, but ran into issues. The code architecture didn't lend itself to the asynchronous nature of server-side state management. It was difficult to fix this without rather invasive changes, since a lot of the data flows needed to be inverted. If you're interested in taking a look at our changes, please take a look at https://github.com/drakedevel/gloomycompanion/tree/modernize. We'd be happy to work with you to merge the changes upstream.

Thank you for putting this app together, it's been invaluable for our play!

[teisenbe]

We're of course interested in continuing to contribute and help maintain this code, since it's essential to how we play with our friend.

[GinoGalotti]

Wow, that's amazing work! Although, it seems that your solution requires users to download and build the solution by themselves (which I assume 99% of the users prefer to just use the online app). We don't do any development on the tool anymore, but now that I'm working with JS again, I don't mind to help if you guys are planning to bring the change.

[teisenbe]

Yeah, it currently requires more work to stand up than your version. One thing we'd like to do is explore how we could provide a hosted version of it. The big thing blocking that is figuring out how to either let folks specify their own storage (Firebase doesn't support this very easily) or make things a little less abusable so no one misuses the Firebase store. We haven't spent too much time looking into that yet