Real Time Chat Application - Backend - Express, Node, Socket - Live Demo

Technologies

• Node
• JavaScript, JQuery
• Backend: Socket.io library (https://socket.io/docs/ )
• Express
• Reactstrap (https://reactstrap.github.io/)

Installation

REACT

  $ git clone https://github.com/truptigaonkar/mandatory-backend1-chat
  $ cd mandatory-advanced-js1.git
  $ npm install
  $ npm start

Express

  $ node server/server.js
  $ npm start

Instructions

• The chat should, as a slack, have support for several rooms - ie if you write in a specific room, the message should only show in the room.
• User should be able to create and remove rooms - all rooms should have a unique name
• Every message has info about who wrote it
• Chat should support real-time messages (recommend socket.io)
• The rooms & all messages must be saved in the long term (eg in one or more files). That is, when you restart the server everything should be left
• Each room should have a list of all users who have written something earlier

Optional

• View all users who are active in the chat
• Add logic for "writing right now" (shown often as ...)
• Add locked room - a room that requires entering a password to access
• Direct messages to other users
• profile Pictures
• emoji
• Edit & delete old messages