React Native Chessboard

A lightweight and customizable chessboard component for React Native. Ideal for building chess applications, training tools, or integrating chess features into your mobile app.

Features

• Interactive chessboard with drag-and-drop, as well as tap to move
• Board rotation at any given time
• Move highlighting (e.g. last moves, legal moves...)
• Piece Promotion, Castling and every other legal chess move

Coming soon

• Seek through game history (undo and redo operations)
• load games from pgn's
• Customizable board and pieces

Disclaimer

This package is a work in progress, use it with caution.

Installation

This package uses the following peer-dependencies (they have to be installed already):

• react-native-gesture-handler
• react-native-reanimated
• zustand

Open a Terminal in your project's folder and install the library using yarn:

yarn add rn-chessboard

or with npm

npm install rn-chessboard

Usage

import ChessBoard from 'rn-chessboard';

const App = () => (
  <View>
    <ChessBoard/>
  </View>
)