renowncoder / chat-app-with-socket.io

https://chat-app-with-socketio.herokuapp.com/

Chat-App-with-Socket.io

This is a simple chat app, created with Socket.io, a Nodejs library for realtime web applications, best for chatting app. It enables realtime, bi-directional communication between web clients and servers. It has two parts: a client-side library that runs in the browser, and a server-side library for Node.js. Both components have a nearly identical API.

More about Socket.io

Login with any name, you want. If you want to send message to someone, told them to login with any name, know his/her username and send message with @username: [Write your message]. If you want to broadcast your message to everyone just write normal message and Send.

This chat app is hosted on Heroku which is cloud platform as a service supporting several programming languages like Nodejs, PHP, Java, JavaScript and all. To create project in Heroku, install Heroku CLI from here and goto that folder where you have source code and run heroku apps:create [name of app] and before that you must have uploaded your code on Github. After that check with git remote that you must have 2 remotes, 1. origin and 2. heroku and after that git push heroku master to upload it on heroku.

You can check it here: https://chat-app-with-socketio.herokuapp.com/

Nodejs must be installed

To install Sequelize, MySQL, Passport and Express you need to run:

npm init for initialzing

npm install express for installing express

npm install socket.io for installing socket.io

npm install heroku for installing heroku

Created while Learning Socket.io with Nodejs from Coding Blocks