halfk1ng / Stopover-chat

MEVN app using Socket.IO for live chat and Stripe API to handle payment

Stopover-chat

This is a MEVN app using Socket.IO for live chat and Stripe API to handle payment.

Features

• Full Stack application

  Vue.js on client side / Node.js on server side.

• Instant messaging

  Using Socket.IO

• User can create and/or join public or private room (protected by password)

• Non premium user can't create more than one chat room per 12h

  Client IP is stored and checked.

• Chat rooms are auto-destroyed 12 hours after being created.

  This is a "fly-away" chat. Countdown is displayed in the chat room.

• Room's name and username verification

  Two chat rooms can't have the same name and two user can't have the same username inside the some room.

• A premium user can create an illimited number of chat rooms

  To become premium you have to subscribe a monthly billing (with one month free trial !).

• Stripe API is used to handle payment.

  With a demo card number for the needs of this project.

• Stripe webhooks

  • Update a customer’s membership record in my database when a subscription payment succeeds.
  • Send a subscription or a cancelation email.

• Sending emails

  Welcome emails, password reset flow and cancellation emails are sent with SendGrid

• Special admin authorizations

  User who creates a chat room is the admin of this one.
  As an admin he gets two powers : to block an user or to ban an user.
  A blocked user will be able to read messages but not to post its.
  A banned user is pushed out of the room and can't connect again unless to be unbaned.

• IP checking

  In addition to preventing non premium user from creating more than one room, banned user's IP is blacklisted. (Only the username is blacklisted in this demo version).

• Setting status

  Users can set status "online", "busy" or "absent"

• Downloading chat history

  Users can dowload their chat history in pdf. History of each user begins when he joins the room.

• Authentification

  Sign up / Sign in / Sign out with encrypted password stored in database.

• Cookies and JSON Web Tokens

  Are used to manage Authorization

• Database Schemas and Document Relationships

  Two models are used and managed with Mongoose : Rooms and Users.

• REST API

  RESTful API with Node and Express.

• MVC Pattern

• Server Deployment

  Deployed on Heroku.