Mehulcoder / Chat-Application

A chat application with real time updates, chat rooms, location sharing, automatic scrolling and build with completely responsive web design.

# ChatApp

Live Demo

Features

• Join a specified room to chat

• Send the geographical location to other users in the room if permission is granted

• Automatically scroll down upon receiving a new message

• Responsive web design (RWD)

Getting Started

Follow the instructions below to set up the environment and run this project on your local machine

Prerequisites

• Node.js

Installing

1. Download ZIP or clone this repo

> git clone https://github.com/Mehulcoder/Chat-Application.git

2. Install dependencies via NPM

> npm install

5. Back to the root directory and type the below command to start the server and the service

> npm run dev

6. See it up and running on http://localhost:8000

Deployment

1. Deploy to Heroku

> heroku create
> git push heroku master

2. Open the app in the browser

> heroku open

Built With

Frontend

• jquery
• mustache

Backend

• express
• NodeJS
• compression
• helmet

Utils

• socket.io
• moment

Notes

• Send an event to everybody in the room 'The Office Fans'

io.emit -> io.to('The Office Fans').emit

• Send an event to everybody in the room 'The Office Fans' except for the current user

socket.broadcast.emit -> socket.broadcast.to('The Office Fans').emit

• Send an event to a specific user

socket.emit

Authors

• Mehul Chaturvedi