Chat Application

• Github repository

About Project

I started building this application as a part of a Udemy course (which I would recommend to anyone who wants to learn node.js). The purpose of this project is to learn how to use node.js for realtime client-server communication using the socketio library.

Features

When first visiting the website, a user can pick a name and a room to join. Then the user can send plain text messages to the other users in the room. Also, each user can send their location in the form of a link to their location on Google maps. Each user can see the list of other users in the chat room.

In progress

These are extra features that are still in development.

• Password protected rooms - On the "join" page, users enter a password along with their name and room. If the room is empty, a new room is created with the given password, which can be blank. If the room is not empty, the entered password has to match the password that was given by the first person to join that room.
• Send images and files - On the "chat" page, users can send images or files to the other members of the room.
• React or Angular frontend - Rewrite client side code to use a JavaScript framework such as React or Angular.

Demo

Chat app