Who23 / DenoChatApp

A chat app written with deno.js

Deno Chat

A simple chat app written with deno.js

Installation & Execution

Requires tsc (typescript compiler) & deno (deno.js)

1. Clone the repo
2. Change the const WSSERVER in script.ts to "YOUR_LOCAL_IP:8081"
3. Run these commands

chmod +x run
./run

4. Go to SERVER_COMPUTER_LOCAL_IP:8080 to see the webpage

Details

The backend is written with deno.js, which serves a webpage and a websocket server asynchronously. The webpage is served on port 8080, with the frontend javascript.

The websocket server is used to communicate with each of the clients, using a Message class that is serialized into json. This is how the text messages and name updates are sent to each client.