ricardoferreirasilva / Loudmouth

A chat application using facebook authentication. Developed for SDIS @FEUP

LoudMouth v1

Electron

React - a javascript library for building user interfaces

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/installation.html

Webpack - module bundler for modern JS applications

https://webpack.js.org/configuration/

Run it

Client side (electron app)

Inside electron/

npm install
npm run watch
npm start

npm install - install all the packages required.

npm run watch - compiles ES6 and react to bundle.js file that is included in index.html

npm start - launches electron app

Server side

Inside server/

npm install
npm start

npm install - install all the packages required.

npm start - launches express server, the objective is to have a REST API to interact with the mysql database.

LoudMouth v2

Prerequisites

• (Optional) IntelliJ - The IDE used

Run it

Open the /v2 folder in IntelliJ.

Client side

In the intelliJ: go to the src/client/gui/MainWindow.java file and press the green button next to the beginning of the class definition.

In terminal: java -jar ./jar_files/loudmouthClientV2.jar <server_host>, where server_host is http://localhost:8000 by default.

Server side

In the intelliJ: go to the src/server/Server.java file and press the green button next to the beginning of the class definition.

In terminal: java -jar ./jar_files/loudmouthServerV2.jar

Note: All commands assume that the current directory is /v2.