typedeck v1.5.2

TypeDeck

A TypeScript library for playing cards.

Getting Started

• See the documentation.
• Examples on RunKit.
  • Includes examples on extending classes and using common components!
• See code on GitHub.
• Try it out in your project!

Features

typedeck gives you types and classes to help jumpstart your card-based game.

• Card
  • Simple card classes (PlayingCard/JokerCard)
• Chip
  • Provided Chip classes and standard values
    • Values can be overridden, and custom Chip classes
• Declarative Types
  • CardName: [Ace, Two, Three, ...]
  • Suit: [Clubs, Spades, Diamonds, Hearts]
• Card collections
  • Classes that represent multiple cards as a logical item.
    • Hand - cards that belong to a player
    • CardPile - cards that are frequently drawn from or added to
    • Deck - extension of CardPile with additional game-time helpers
• Services
  • Shuffle
    • Shuffle any ICard implementation
  • Poker Hand Scoring
    • Texas Hold Em Hand Detection
    • Winner scoring/determination
  • Chip management
    • Taking specific values
    • Creating chips from value
    • Breaking chips to get specific value
• And so much more ... see the documentation for a full list.

Customization

Most features support parameters that implement either an interface or a base class. You can create your own type of Card that implements ICard or a Chip with special chip color values which extends Chip base class.

Credits

• Card images by Ben Davis from the Noun Project
• This library package is built from work by Jason Dreyzehner's typescript-starter project. This was the building block for docs, code coverage, and testing (among others).
• Poker hand scoring from @kequc
  • How to score a poker hand in JavaScript