walosha / chat

Node.js Login Chat App

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, FEATURES MAY BE MISSING.

What is this project?

A chatroom website written in Node.js using Socket.IO for communication between clients. Express.js and the Node.js implementation of SQLite are used for a login system allowing users to register, login, edit, and delete an account at any time. Passwords are hashed using bcrypt so they are stored securely in the database.

Features

🟢 = Fully working | 🟡 = Partly working/in progress | 🟠 = To be added | 🔴 = Broken

• Database 🟢
• Sign Up 🟢
• Sign In 🟢
• Session management system 🟢
• Homepage 🟢
• Edit account 🟢
• Delete account 🟢
• Remember me 🟢
• Two-step verification 🟠
• Mobile support 🟢
• List of connected users 🟢
• Message displayed on joining/leaving chat 🟢
• Sending and receiving messages 🟢
• Previous chat history displayed on joining 🟢
• 250 character limit on messages 🟢
• Administrator accounts with ban and delete powers 🟠
• Different chatrooms 🟠
• Changing username updates it in chat logs 🟠
• Deleting account updates it to "DELETED" in chat logs 🟠
• Session renewal on a regular basis 🟠

Installation instructions

Dependencies

• Node.js v17 or newer
• NPM package manager
• Git

Terminal/command prompt

git clone https://github.com/chasc0des/nodejs-login-chat-app.git
cd nodejs-login-chat-app
npm install .
npm start

By default, the program can be accessed on http://localhost:8080 or from another machine on your network, http://<YOUR IP ADDRESS>:8080.

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