Simple Chat

Test task for 2GIS

Versions

Node.js: 5.4.0

NPM: 3.3.12

Installation

npm install

Run

You can use:

node server.js

or:

npm start

Build

If you did not change config.json, building is not necessary

But you can run:

npm run build

Config

In file config.json you can change next fields:

• name Nickname of server that will be used in the chat

• historyChunkSize Size of chunk of history that will be sent to client

• chat-server You can set port and origin of websocket-server

• static-server You can set port of static server

If you change config.json then you need rebuild appliation and restart server

Features

Smiles

There is availaible four smiles:

• :)

• :(

• ;)

• :P

More info you can find in src/components/smilify.js

Dynamic loading history

By default after login to the chat user receive chunk of history. But user can load more history by chunks of fixed size. Size of that chunk you can set into config.json.

Messages sending

You can push ctrl + enter to send message instead of click to button send. Messages can be multilined. All messages will be escaped for prevent XSS.

TODO

• Who typing? Up messages list insert region with info who is typing right now.

• Rooms. For each room use separate tab (e.g. bootstrap-tabs)

• Messages to one user (private and not private)

• Choose timezone into config.json