Ping

Ping is a node.js based chat server, and it has the capabilities like:

• Creating private chat rooms
• Video conferencing
• Display pic of the user is shown using gravatar associated with user's mail id

Tech

Ping is developed using the following open source libraries:

• node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• socket.io - enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication
• AngularJS - HTML enhanced for web apps!
• Twitter Bootstrap - great UI boilerplate for modern web apps
• Express - fast node.js network app framework
• Nodemon - Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development
• bower - front end package manager
• Gravatar - Globally recognized avatar.

How to deploy the application

You need node.js installed globally:

Go to the root directory of the application and run the following command to install node_modules

$ npm install

Go to the root directory of the application and run the following command to install front-end dependencies

$ bower install

To start the chat server, go to the root directory of the application and run

$ npm start

To make use of Ping, go to the following url in a browser

http://localhost:3000/

Todo's

• Use grunt to automate the tasks
• Support for browsers like IE and safari
• Write UnitTests