Chaatt

Chaatt is a Flask powered asynchronous web-chat implemented using Socket.IO javascript library.

Flask extensions

• Flask-Login - provides user session management.
• Flask-Bcrypt - extension that provides bcrypt hashing utilities.
• Flask-SQLAlchemy - is an extension that adds support for SQLAlchemy ORM.
• Flask-WTF - simple integration of Flask and WTForms.
• Flask-SocketIO - SocketIO integration for Flask applications.

Javascript, CSS libraries:

• Bootstrap - popular framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
• jQuery - library, that makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation.
• Socket.IO - gives access to low latency bi-directional communications between the clients and the server.
• Moment.js - for parsing, manipulating and displaying dates and times.

Preparing and launching

Extensions installation

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Launching

$ python ./run.py