lazymeadow / best-ever-chat

A super awesome chat server and client webpage

Best Chat Ever

It's, like, really good, oh my gosh.

Setup:

Install:

There are some dependencies that are necessary to install. There might be more. Let me know.

1. You need to have python2.7, mysql, and npm.

On Linux:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev libmysqlclient-dev python-mysqldb npm

On Mac:

brew install mysql npm openssl

Then follow the instructions here to get pip (brew will also give you this url if you type brew install pip):

https://pip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installing/

On Windows:

Just use PyCharm. It will work.

2. npm install -g less less-plugin-clean-css
3. pip3 install -r install/requirements.txt

If this doesn't work, try sudo. Some of the packages are dumb.

If this doesn't work on Mac, try:

pip install --ignore-installed -r install/pip-install

You can also just use PyCharm and it will install them for you.

On Windows:

MySQL-Python will fail, it doesn't really matter what you do. You need to install it manually.

Download the wheel here: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mysql-python

If you're using virtualenv, make sure you run path_to_venv\Scripts\activate, then install it globally with pip install MySQL_python-1.2.5-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl

Database:

1. Setup a local MySql database.
2. Import install/bestChat.sql to get the schema and tables. (If you've already been working on it, this will wipe your tables, fyi.)
3. Make a user 'bestChat' with the password in chat.cfg and (at least) the following permissions to the bestchat schema: DELETE, EXECUTE, INSERT, SELECT, SHOW, VIEW, UPDATE

To run:

Places to edit:

1. Set the client to use your server url (static/js/client/BestEvarChatClient.js line 11)

Actually running:

1. npm build
2. python tornado_chat.py

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cat images: http://www.iconka.com

twemoji client parsing: https://github.com/twitter/twemoji

joypixels emoji assets: https://www.joypixels.com/