How to make Heroic Labs’ Nakama redeploy faster and debug easier

Here Matt demonstrates how to run Nakama locally with Docker. How using an auto-reloader, that monitors TypeScript code changes, can make debugging and redeployment super simple.

What you’ll learn

• How to setup a Nakama example project in a docker container
• How to hook an auto reloader using watcher.js
• Sample Nakama RPCs to ban and unban a player
• See how the Nakama container is auto restarted after code changes (and why that’s awesome)
• How you can improve your Nakama development cycle using these hacks