messaging-websocket-tutorial

This is a simple chat application for the "Introduction to Real-Time Communication Using Websockets" workshop at the IvyHacks 2020 Hackathon. 🍃💬

Here are the slides for the workshop.

Prerequisites to run locally:

Make sure you have the latest version of node and npm installed (node version 14.12 >)

To run this application locally, do the following:

1. git clone git@github.com:sbssai123/messaging-websocket-tutorial.git
2. cd messaging-websocket-tutorial
3. npm install
4. npm run dev

This application is deployed using Heroku and can be accessed here.

Resources

1. Client-side Websocket API Documentation
2. NodeJs Websocket Documentation
3. Introduction to Websockets
4. ReactJs Documentation
5. Python (server-side) Websocket Implementation
6. How to Deploy on Heroku