Chat-room-Using-Nodejs-and-socketio

This is basic chat application using Express application framework and socket.io.It shows the online users and the chat history. User with the same name has not be handled yet. Any one can use this as basic code for chat and improve it with their own thinking and imagination.

Getting Started

cd Node(Express)

Then run

node server.js

The server will be running at port no 3000. Then open http://localhost:3000 in your browser(Chrome recommended). Then login with any name into the ChatRoom.

Prerequisites

Require basic knowledge of HTML CSS JavaScript(Socket programming )and Node environment.

Installing

Installing Node

for mac

brew install node

for Linux

apt-get install node

Check the version by typing

node -v

Installing Express

npm install express --save

Installing Socket.io

npm install socket.io --save