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https://github.com/giangmd/nodejs-socket.io-learning

Chat App with NodeJS and Socket.IO
https://github.com/giangmd/nodejs-socket.io-learning

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Chat App with NodeJS and Socket.IO

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# Nodejs Socket.io Chat Simple App for Learning

A simple Nodejs code for a Chat App

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## Requirements

For development, you will only need Node.js and a node global package, NPM, installed in your environement.

### Node
- #### Node installation on Windows

Just go on [official Node.js website](https://nodejs.org/) and download the installer.
Also, be sure to have `git` available in your PATH, `npm` might need it (You can find git [here](https://git-scm.com/)).

- #### Node installation on Ubuntu

You can install nodejs and npm easily with apt install, just run the following commands.

$ sudo apt install nodejs
$ sudo apt install npm

- #### Other Operating Systems
You can find more information about the installation on the [official Node.js website](https://nodejs.org/) and the [official NPM website](https://npmjs.org/).

If the installation was successful, you should be able to run the following command.

$ node --version
v8.11.3

$ npm --version
6.1.0

If you need to update `npm`, you can make it using `npm`! Cool right? After running the following command, just open again the command line and be happy.

$ npm install npm -g

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### NPM installation
After installing node, this project will need npm too, so just run the following command.

$ npm install

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## Setup the project

$ git clone https://github.com/giangmd/nodejs-socket.io-learning.git PROJECT_TITLE
$ cd PROJECT_TITLE
$ npm install

## Running the project

$ node app.js

## Branch for functions
`feature/generate` for Generate Chat function