chat

A simple localhost chat written on Javascript (Node.js Express) & Socket.IO

Now main features working:

Minimum lenght of message = 1 col
As many participiants as you wish
Messages are being stored for one session

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software and how to install them

1. Ubuntu
2. Node.js & npm
3. Socket.IO Library
4. git

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you have to get a development env running

First, make sure you are running Ubuntu on your PC. For this purpose visit https://www.ubuntu.com/ and follow installation instructions.

Second, run these scripts to get Node.js installed:

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

$ sudo apt-get install -y build-essential  // this will install additional building tools

Third, download Socket.IO lib by running:

$ npm install socket.io

Finally, install git by typing:

$ sudo apt-get install git

Running

To make this large powerful machine working, write script below in your terminal and open http://localhost:8080/:

$ node server.js

Built With

Node.js - The web framework used
npm - Dependency Management
EJS Templates - Used to generate .EJS views

Authors

Mishanya & Seva Bro-Team - Initial work - Seva

mishazawa / chat