clinis / websocket-chat

Improved Socket.IO Chat Example.

Improved Socket.IO Chat Example

Synopsis

Source code for a very simple Node.js chat application using Socket.IO.

This code is an improvement over the example Getting Started guide on the Socket.IO website.

Improvements

From their website:

Here are some ideas to improve the application:

• Broadcast a message to connected users when someone connects or disconnects
• Add support for nicknames
• Don’t send the same message to the user that sent it himself. Instead, append the message directly as soon as he presses enter.
• Add “{user} is typing” functionality
• Show who’s online
• Add private messaging

Share your improvements!

The improvements are:

• Users can set nicknames
• List of online users
• Typing indictor when user is typing
• Broadcast message when someone connects or disconnects

Demonstration

Getting Started

1. Clone or download this repo;

2. Open the directory in terminal;

3. Install Node modules with npm install;

4. Run the Node application with node index.js;

5. Open the application on the browser at localhost:3000.