This app uses
I've set it up so that you only need to use the run
script
$ ./run
Then go to localhost:8000/{room_name}/{user_name}
The room_name and user_name can be replaced by whatever you want (although you need to match room_names to actually chat with friends)
The front-end is simple HTML/CSS and Javascript using the WebSocket connection to establish a client server connection. Currently (05-04-2020) this works perfectly on it's own but there is no persistence to the database so chat sessions and usernames cannot be stored.
The back-end has been partially written and yet to be connected with the backend. A few more instructions need to be present in order to maintain persistence. So with MongoDB we are storing a Username/Password combo, all of the active rooms, and all of the messages per room. When connected to the front-end the UX/UI will drastically change as we can display all active chat rooms to join as well as the members inside of a chatroom.