Hi @plyoung!

You can make regular HTTP requests to achieve that.

Through express, you can create a route that will respond with the list of available characters, for example:

app.get("/characters", (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) => {
  // TODO: query the database here
  res.json([
    { id: 1, name: "Warrior", ... },
    { id: 2, name: "Mage", ... },
  ]);
});

For the database, I'd suggest using MongoDB, which is schemaless and pretty easy to get running. You can also use a SQL database such as MySQL and use Sequelize which has a nice abstraction layer.

Cheers!

Hi @erochOnGit, I see. Thanks for sharing your project.

The issue you're having is because you're using both commonjs and es6 module systems at the same time. A common practice is to either always use require + module.exports, or import + export, never both.

You can fix the issue by using import { MyRoom } from "./defaultRoom.ts" here. Or by exporting the room using commonjs, by using module.exports = class MyRoom {...

@Diederik-Van-Remoortere is that your scenario as well?

Hi @imallic, absolutely. I'll gladly merge this change. Thanks for sharing.

Hi @korol-sas, can you provide some source code for us to have a look? Cheers

Hey @tyrus-shan,

If you're not using TypeScript, you can use nosync as a regular function, like this:

const nosync = require("colyseus").nosync;

class YourState {
  constructor () {
    this.privateProperty = "I won't be synched";
    nosync(this, 'privateProperty');
  }
}

Hope this helps

If that doesn't solve the issue, it would be nice if you could provide an example of how to reproduce the issue. Cheers!

@Diederik-Van-Remoortere @erochOnGit

Please see this thread https://discuss.colyseus.io/topic/57/room-error-solved/3

Hey @nene, welcome!

From the client-side, you should use client.getAvailableRooms() (docs)

Locked rooms are invisible to the room listing by default. You can set maxClients = 2 (docs) in your room handler, and use setMetadata(...) (docs) to make some data available to the room listing.

Hope this helps!