Websocket Chat

A simple chat using websockets with Socket.io

Demo

Only tested on Google Chrome Version 43.0.2357.124 (64-bit) on Mac OSX

http://hidden-wildwood-6596.herokuapp.com/chat

To Run

You will need the Python virtualenv and pip to install dependencies

cd <path/to/this/repo>

// create Python virtual environment and activate
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

// install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

// set port in environment variable
export PORT=5000

// run
python application.py

Go to http://localhost:5000/chat to start chatting! Open another window and chat with yourself so it's not so lonely

Tech Stack

• Heroku
• Flask
• Flask-SocketIO
• AngularJS
• Socket.io
• SASS

Known bugs

• Sometimes sends message out twice