Chat App

Building a real-time chat application using Nodejs, Express.js and socket.io

• Users can enter the chat.
• Upon entering chat users are given a randomly generated name.
• Users can change their name.
• Users can send and receive messages in real-time from other users.
• Chats are not currently being persisted to a database or log file.

Screenshots

Before you get started

Refresh on the following things;

• HTML5/CSS
• socket.io
• Express.js web framework
• Javascript (ES6)
• Node

Setup

Installing Depencendies

Dependencies and versions are listed in the package.json "dependencies" key, and can be installed via the following command from root:

npm install

Installation of nodemon

This project uses nodemon for hot reloading I installed it globally using:

npm install nodemon -g

Installation of Node

This project requires nodejs to run.

Starting the dev server

nodemon will auto reload the server upon file changes.

nodemon server.js

Tests

• Tested bidirectional messaging successfully

Contributors

• Daniel Corcoran

Sources

• Express Documentation