ChatRoomAPP

Main goal:

Built a chatroom that can send & get message from all on-line user.

Completed things:

1. Turn my HTML code to Jade.
2. CSS.
3. Enter detected.
4. Using Socket.io API to send/get message.
5. Connect to MongoDB to store history messages(use JSON).

TODO list:

1. Show on-line Users.
2. Modify to AngularJS.

###If you want to get whole project, just follow these steps:###

####step1####

make sure you have some necessary things installed:

1. install node.js
2. install npm(we need it to download packages)
3. enter the following command npm init
4. enter the following command npm install express
5. enter the following command npm install express-generator@4
6. download Socket.io (Please install the latest version)
7. enter the following command npm install mongodb
8. enter the following command npm install mongoose
9. You can also goto Socket.io for some example APP Socket.io APP

####step2####

git clone

enter the following command

git clone https://github.com/brianhuang1019/ChatRoomAPP.git ChatroomAPP

####step3####

Open the database

You need to create the path /data/db on the root directory and then make /data & /data/db writable

sudo mkdir /data /data/db && sudo chmod 0777 /data /data/db

and then enter the following command

cd ChatroomAPP && sh db.sh

if you can't open the database, try the commands below: (for Mac OS only, for other OS, plaese see: mongoDB)

brew update

brew install mongodb

and create /data & /data/db and set it's priorty bits, then go to step4

####step4####

Open the server

enter the following command

make run

####step5####

Open Web page

Open your browser and goto http://127.0.0.1:3333/ You can see the chatroom

The history message is located at http://127.0.0.1:3333/message

This project is built by Express + MongoDB at 2015/07/07 by Po-Chih Huang.