KittyParty

A chat program where users send GIFs that correspond with their messages.

Once a user has entered the chat, they can send messages to their peers. The message will be tokenized and "translated" into a GIF found on Giphy, which will also be sent in the chat.

At the moment, if a message cannot be properly translated into something found on Giphy, Gene Wilder will tell you that you don't get a special GIF, like so...

The notable technologies I worked with include JavaScript (ES6), AngularJS, Node.js, Express.js, Socket.io, jQuery, Sass (SCSS), RAPTORSMACSS, Gulp.js, and the Giphy API.

WIREFRAME: To see the project's initial wireframe (HTML5, CSS3, Sass, JavaScript, and jQuery), check out the wireframe branch.

Contents

• Local Usage
• ToDos
• Team
• License
• Connect

Local Usage

Installation

1. Ensure your computer has the requirements met
2. Clone the master branch of this repo
3. Change to the root directory of the local clone
4. Run npm run setup

Running KittyParty

1. Change to the root directory of the local clone
2. Run npm run start
3. In your browser of choice, go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ or http://localhost:8080
4. OPTIONAL: Run gulp to watch the SCSS files and compile the CSS stylesheet

Requirements

• Node 5.0.0+
• NPM 3.0.0+
• JSPM 0.16.14+
• Express 4.13.3+

Optional Requirements

These are the requirements to use the gulpfile.js file, as is...

• Gulp 3.9.0+
• Gulp-CLI 1.1.0+

ToDos

• Cram MongoDB in
• Find out what change happened after Socket.IO 1.3.7, making further versions cause the server to crash after a user disconnects
  • "socket.io": "1.3.7" in package.json file, rather than "socket.io": "^1.3.7"
• Improve message conversion via tokenization
  • The Giphy API is not great at dealing with sentences, so the messages must be tokenized further
    • NLP research
• Create a better response if there is no return GIF
• Include database and deployment
• Create an actual sign-in and login
• Add user profile pictures or Gravatar inclusion

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Team

The humans responsible and technology colophon.

• Ali Esmaili (Developer & Designer): AESM

License

This project is copyright © 2015-2016 Ali Esmaili | SuitAndCape. It is free software that may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE.

This is based on The MIT License (MIT). For more information, visit the Open Source Initiative website.

Connect

🎩	🚀
SuitAndCape GitHub	https://github.com/SuitAndCape
Personal GitHub	https://github.com/AESM
Website	http://SuitAndCape.github.io/
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/in/SuitAndCape
Twitter	https://twitter.com/SuitAndCape