Oblivion

• Bi-directional Chat application
• User Registration and login
• Multiple rooms
• Unique urls for each room
• share and save room

Packages Used

• Python Flask
• Javascript
• SocketIO & Flask-SocketIO
• WTForms
• SQLAlchemy
• Postgresql Database
• Rethinkdb Database

Getting Started

Install Packages

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate (for windows venv\Scripts\activate)
pip install -r requirements.txt

install server

Create Databases

Start rethinkdb server

python main.py rethinkDbSetup  (create Thinkdb database and tables)
python main.py shell
db.create_all()                (to create Postgresql database and tables)

Running Application

Start rethinkdb server

python main.py run

Stil Todo

• The application is half way finished, taking a break to learn more technologies:

• Delete messages after 24 hours - create a Celery task for this.

• user Bleach to sanitize user input to make it more secure.

• Fix up the hardcoded template responses which are inefficient and hard to maintain.

Demo

Register User and Login

Adding new room and saving room

Chat application