Chat Room

This is a Node.js chat room powered by Express and socket.io.

Demo

There is a working live demo at http://eslab1.azurewebsites.net/

Features

• Send text message to public room and specific user
• User register and login
• Save login status
• User list showing who is online
• Offline messages
• Notification for new private messages
• Show messages timestamp using tooltips
• Clean design

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Setup

Get the source code

$ git clone https://github.com/ESLab-2017/Lab1.git 
$ cd Lab1

Download and install all the dependencies

$ npm install

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Usage

Start server

$ npm start

Open a browser and go to

localhost:8080

Start chatting!

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Built With

• Express - Web framwork for Node.js
• socket.io - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication

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Team

Kuan Tung	Mike Lee