Chat Box!

A chatting app with accounts just like the thousands of ones out there but probaly worse.

Demo

Working demo on the Website.

Installation

If you want to use this, then give credit.

First clone and download dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/Calbabreaker/chat-box.git
cd chat-box
npm install

Then you need to get a redis-server (linux):

sudo apt update
sudo apt install redis-server

Start redis-server as detached process:

redis-server &

Start the node server:

npm start

For more detail instructions please see this post (for redis) and this post (for nodejs).

You might want to edit the .env to your likings (explanation in .env_sample)