What is kernelee-lifegame?

kernelee-lifegame is a demonstration app built on top of a separate framework called kernelee. It recreates Conway's Game of Life, the classic simulation where cells on a grid live, die, or multiply based on a few simple rules, but the real purpose of the project is to show off two building blocks the kernelee framework provides. The first building block, called divert, lets the simulation repeat its generation loop forever without using more and more computer memory each time, since it treats each repeat as a fresh step rather than piling up like a stack of function calls. The second, called fork, splits the board into pieces so the next generation can be computed in parallel instead of one cell at a time. The project lets you choose how those pieces are divided, either by chunks of rows, single rows, or individual cells, and you can switch between these while the simulation is running to see how it affects performance. The simulation logic itself is separated from the visual interface, so it can be tested on its own without loading any UI. The interface is built with React, using a companion library called react-kernelee, and includes a canvas where the board is drawn, along with controls to play, pause, step through one generation at a time, randomize the board, and adjust simulation speed. User settings like speed and the fork mode are saved in the browser's local storage so they persist between visits, though the board itself is not saved. The codebase is organized into clearly separated layers, each with strict rules about what it is allowed to depend on, which keeps the pure simulation logic isolated from the interface and from framework-specific code. It is written in TypeScript and uses Vite for building and previewing, and Vitest for running tests. The project currently has no stars and depends on several companion packages from the same author.