Midway through this project, I ran into that pure HTML one here and chuckled that someone else was making their variant as well. It really cracked me up! Then

Midway through this project, I ran into that pure HTML one here and chuckled that someone else was making their variant as well. It really cracked me up! Then there was another, and then I ran into another (yesterday's), so I went ahead and shared mine. Obviously programmers like to reconstruct things as a hobby, make their own implementations, clones. Just surprising how many of us picked minesweeper. For me it was probably the fact that it didn't come with Windows 10, maybe, when I was jonesing to play it. Also I wanted to see if hexagons would work, without knowing about or seeing similar variants. I'm glad I did this because it gave me first-hand working experience in a few theoretical things I knew would work but I didn't know what their quirks were, like setting up websockets/socket.io to work with SSL, using multiple rotating apache backends with a graceful restart to perform upgrades without downtimes, responsive and fast SVG rendering techniques.