Today I made some progress on both client and server programming.
ClientAdded the UI-elements which were missing to the main view. Built a basic system to emit and handle signals which will be generated based on the server requests.
ServerSet up Django and Rest framework and added a simple database model for the rocket to hold its state. Went through Celery tutorials and created a simple periodic script inside Django which updates the rocket's state (moving it forward).
NextNext I'll add the basic API-requests to the client to get the status of the spaceship. Much bigger hurdle is to figure out API-authentication. Basically I want that anonymous people can participate but to get into ranking lists, the users have to authenticate somehow before relevant API-requests. The little I looked, Django's sessions might work as long as my html5/Flash client is considered to be sitting in the same session context as the web-browser. No idea if that's possible. And https is expensive
Oh well, I have to figure out something.