ELEC-C7420 Basic Principles in Networking Spring 2023
This project implements some basic functionalities of a command line messaging application using Python TCP sockets.
To run the application locally install the requirements using pip install -r requirements.txt, then run server.py to start the server.
Now, to add clients to the chat run client.py in a different command prompt for each client and begin chatting.
To see available commands run help in the client.
- Messaging
- User can send a message to another user or a group
- Group management
- Users can create groups
- Owner can delete, rename, and add or remove users from a group
- Offline messages
- Users see messages they received while offline upon going online
- Sender feedback
- Sender gets notified whether recipient recieved message or was offline
- Application state is only saved in-memory
- No password protection
- UI/UX does not scale well with user count