construct is a native JavaScript/ES6 based, digital organisms evolution simulator. It's used for study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms). This project similar to Avida, but works with more abstract language (Digital Organism Script - DOS) instead of assembler. It uses special DOSVM for running DOS byte code and distributed computing to speed up the calculations. Generally, it consists of servers, which just a proxy between clients. All calculations are made on a client side only. It's possible to run the system in a "serverless" mode. For this, you have to run index.html (just drop it into the browser) in Chrome without server.

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• Last version of Chrome browser
• Last stable version of Node.js

• Install Chome browser
• Install Node.js
• Clone this repo to your local machine
• Go to the root folder of cloned repo
• Run npm run install to install all construct dependencies
• Run npm run build to build client part
• Run tests using npm run test command if you need

• To run construct in a "serverless" mode, just open ./client/dist/index.html in Chrome
• To run construct in a "distributed" mode, you have to:
  • Choose some host in your local netwok for server
  • Clone construct repo to this host
  • Go to configuration ./client/src/share/Config.js, find serverHost option and change it to the IP, of your server host. You may use ipconfig under windows to get server's IP
  • Run npm run build command in a terminal from the root folder
  • Run server npm run server on chosen host
  • Copy ./client/dist/index.html and ./client/dist/app.js on all your remote machines and run it there under Chrome

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