BitGuild Portal Update — Technical Stack, New Landing Page
Here’s your end of Spring progress update
Hello everyone from the Mission in San Francisco, home to the BitGuild Portal team! We’ve been hard at work the past couple of weeks making improvements to our code base so that we can iterate more quickly and bring you the features that are most important to you.
Migrating to Next.js
Next.js is a web framework for Node.js that allows us to render React pages on the serve side. We’ve made the migration so we don’t have to maintain our own server side rendering and because the Next.js team has been doing an incredible job keeping up with new versions of React. It means we get to focus on developing portal features instead of maintaining the web server plumbing.
Migrating to GraphQL + Postgres
We’ve migrated to GraphQL for our API layer and Postgres for our database. GraphQL provides a very flexible way of querying for data and will help speed up integration of 3rd party games into the portal. Postgres provides us with a reliable and performant database solution.
Other Improvements
In addition to migrating to new tools and frameworks, we’ve been busy implementing security enhancements to keep you safe while using the Portal, increasing the stability of the site, as well as fixing bugs.
Marketplace
This week we began work on the Marketplace. As you’ll recall from our last post, the Marketplace is where you’ll be able to buy and sell your in-game assets, all based on the ERC721 standard. It’s a huge boon to new games since they won’t have to develop their own marketplace.
Landing Page
We’re also in the process of updating and improving our landing page. Our goal is to get you to your favorite games as quickly as possible and to introduce you to new titles as they’re released.
We’re Hiring!
We’re in the process of expanding our engineering team and hope to announce new team members soon. If you or anyone you know has a passion for the blockchain and games, send them our way: hello@bitguild.com
BitGuild’s mission is to revolutionize the global gaming industry by creating a platform for a brand new class of games that live on the blockchain. Blockchain games completely redefine the relationship between players and developers by facilitating full and true ownership of in-game assets, cheap & safe item trading, cross-game compatibility of items & currency, and more.
