okeeffe / flask-socketio-practice

Messing around with Flask-SocketIO for some real-time goodness

flask-socketio-practice (A.K.A Yet Another Chat Room)

Messing around with Flask-SocketIO for some real-time goodness.

Inspired by @miguelgrinberg's Flask-SocketIO-Chat project (particularly in project format, which I think Miguel is ace at).

I'm also taking the opportunity to get more comfortable with things like CSS vars, Flexbox layouts, Redis and a few different front-end technologies.

Running it

1. git clone and cd in there
2. virtualenv venv to set up a virtualenv (pip install virtualenv if you don't already have it)
3. . venv/bin/activate
4. pip install -r requirements.txt
5. If you don't already have Redis installed, install it (brew install redis on macOS)
6. redis-server to start a local Redis server for message storage
7. python run.py
8. Head to localhost:5000 in your browser(s) of choice

Various Frontends

All front-ends at the moment make use of socket.io for nicer front-end sockets.

1. Vanilla JS powered chat-room runs at /sockets
2. Angular 1-powered chat-room runs at /sockets-ng
3. TODO: React
4. TODO: Vue2
5. TODO: Angular 2

Tested on Python 2.7.13, no reason why it wouldn't also work on other versions.