Chat app 💬 using websockets (Nodejs, Express & Socket.io)

We are going to develop a chat application using Express, Websockets. Tough you can use plain websockets but we would be using a library called Socket.io - which is wrapper around Websockets, its super easy to use and provies a fallback to xhr requests until the websocket connection is established.

The frontend-ui is based on Flexbox, no external UI libraries are used, so you can modify it as per your liking.

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What is Websocket ?

WebSockets are an alternative to HTTP communication in Web Application, they offer full-duplex communication, that is, it is, bi-directional and that means the data can flow in both ways, so it can flow from client to the server and also from server to the client.

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To start setting up the project

Step 1: Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/trulymittal/chat-socket.io.git

Step 2: cd into the cloned repo and run:

npm install

Step 3: Start the chat app (development mode)

npm run dev

Step 4: Start the chat app

npm start

Author

• Truly Mittal

Contribute

You can fork this repo and send me a PR.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.