rudrakpatra / roomserver

Room Server

To facilitate real-time communications between web clients.

A client creates a room, the server sends a room code. Other clients can join the same room using the code. then broadcast messages between each other in real-time using socket.io.

hosted Server: https://socker-room-server.herokuapp.com

Dependency

socket.io-client v4.x

An Example App

An Example App can be found in the test folder. It uses all the APIs provided by the server to make a bare minimum chat app.

The example chat app is also hosted in netlify.

client side code

import io from "socket.io-client";
var socket = io("https://socker-room-server.herokuapp.com/", {});
socket.emit("createRoom", {"username"})
...
socket.emit("pubMsg",{....})
...

APIs

client to server:

createRoom: {name: string}
join: {name: string, code: string}
pubMsg: {data: any}
getMembers: 

server to client:

newRoom: { code: string }
newMember: { name: string }
removeMember: { name: string }
pubMsg: { sender: string, data: any }
members: string[]

Create Your Own servers

deploy in local

$git clone https://github.com/Raunaque97/roomServer.git
$cd roomServer && npm install
$npm start or $npm start-dev

deploy in heroku

$git clone https://github.com/Raunaque97/roomServer.git
$git push heroku master