Space

Lightweight, free anonymous chat service. Gives you the private space you need.

Written using the MEAN framework and Socket.IO
Hosted on Heroku

Setup local development environment

Setup local database

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/thedrumsknight/space.git
cd space

Setup MongoDB

To setup a local Mongo database, you will need to install the MongoDB CLI, visit this page to install the client depending on your OS.

Start the mongod service and run the following command

mongoimport --db space --collection messages --file db/messages.json

This will setup a local Mongo database space with some sample data to work with.

Install dependencies

The app uses npm and bower for dependency management
Run the following commands to install required dependencies

[sudo] npm install
bower install

Start server

To start the development server, run the following commands which compile sass and use nodemon to run the server

The app is continuously monitored by nodemon for any changes in the code upon which the server is automatically restarted

[sudo] mongod
npm start

To start the production server, run the following command which compiles sass and runs a normal node server

[sudo] mongod
npm build

Credits

Developed and maintained by Sahil Lamba, Aman Shrivastava and Mihir Rana