https://github.com/darinm223/node-chat-app

Old chat application project made a while ago
https://github.com/darinm223/node-chat-app

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Old chat application project made a while ago

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/darinm223/node-chat-app
• Owner: DarinM223
• Created: 2014-06-18T20:44:44.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-06-05T11:05:30.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-01-24T00:50:27.707Z (7 months ago)
• Language: HTML
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• Size: 2.55 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
Basic chat client/server using Socket.io

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![Main Image](http://i.imgur.com/exhA9UP.png)

This is my first project using Node.js and Socket.io

Basic Functionality

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Chat messages are shown in the list on the left and the most recent

message is at the top. The labels on the private messages use the format

**[sender of message] [receiver of message] message**

Logged in users other than yourself are shown in the list on the right.

Clicking on a user and then sending a message will send a private message

to that user only. You can select multiple users to send a message to.

Installation

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###Requirements: mongodb

###Tested on: Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 8 64-bit

After you clone the repository, you need to install all of the dependencies first

(in directory of the cloned repository)

    npm install

Finally, to run the chat server:

    node index.js

Then open the browser and enter http://localhost:3700/

There are other options to run the server. If you run the server using the

**supervisor** plugin you won't need to restart the server whenever you make changes

to the node javascript files. To do that enter:

    For Ubuntu:

    npm start

    For Windows:

    node_modules\.bin\supervisor index.js

Testing

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To run all of the unit tests, enter:

    For Ubuntu:

    npm test

    For Windows:

    node_modules\.bin\mocha

Make sure that Mongodb is running before running the tests, since they need a sample

database to test login/signup functionality.