Nucleon Chat Application
Nucleon Chat is a PWA (progressive web app) which can work across any platform like ios, Android, Linux , Windows , Windows Phone. It has all the basic functionalities of a native mobile application.
Features
- Progressive - Work for every user, regardless of browser choice because they’re built with progressive enhancement as a core tenet.
- Responsive - Fit any form factor: desktop, mobile, tablet, or forms yet to emerge.
- Connectivity independent - Service workers allow work offline, or on low quality networks.
- App-like - Feel like an app to the user with app-style interactions and navigation.
- Fresh - Always up-to-date thanks to the service worker update process.
- Secure - Served via HTTPS to prevent snooping and ensure content hasn’t been tampered with.
- Re-engageable - Make re-engagement easy through features like push notifications.
- Installable - Allow users to “keep” apps they find most useful on their home screen without the hassle of an app store.
- Linkable - Easily shared via a URL and do not require complex installation
- Space Optimization - With PWA we can achieve memory optimization in terms of and working RAM. As per analysis it not exceeding more than 10KB.
- Responsive - The chat application is responsive and is platform independent. The stats are checked using lighthouse.
Setting up your Firebase
- To Access the backend you have to login to firebase and get your domain https status as PWA works only on https.
- You have to host it from firebase and apply Google authentication on it.
- You will get a client id and access token from there and add it your application.
- Create a Firebase Account
- Using Console, create and Application
- Get a free domain using FreeNom.com and add the DNS to the Firebase Console Hosting Tab
- Now using CLI - (Change to the root dir)
- Enter following commads in the command line
- npm install -g firebase
- firebase init
- firebase use --add
- firebase serve (To check application in the LocalHost)
- firebase deploy (To host in the domain)
Future Scope
- This application is best suited for the start-ups as it can be embedded in any application easily as it is using only HTML , CSS and JS and all the tags defined are self-explaintary and can be modified according to the requirements of organisation. *The hashcode of a particular image will help in clearing the reductant data as only one copy of a particular image is downloaded.