tomimelo / sockets-projects

A few projects examples of things you can do with sockets. Made in Angular, Node and Express.

Sockets Demo

A few projects examples of things you can do with sockets. Made in Angular, Node and Express. I came up with this idea after taking a course of Udemy by Fernando Herrera to show everything learned.
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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Usage
4. Contact
5. Acknowledgements

About The Project

This app contains some examples you can do with sockets: A chat, poll, charts, interactive maps and more.

Live demo available HERE

Built With

• Angular 9
• Node 12
• Socket.io
• Express
• Bootstrap 5

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.

Prerequisites

You will need a copy of Node.js as an environment to run the project. Then you use a dependency manager like npm to download dependencies into your project.

• npm

  npm install npm@latest -g

• Angular CLI

  npm install -g @angular/cli

• Typescript

  npm install -g typescript

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/tomimelo/sockets-projects.git

2. Install NPM packages - You need to execute this command in both backend and frontend folders:

   npm install

3. Open a terminal and enter frontend. Then run the following command for a dev server

   ng serve

4. On another terminal enter backend folder and compile typescript project

   tsc

5. Enter on dist generated folder an run node server

   node index.js

6. Your app is ready. Open your browser and go to:

   localhost:5000

Usage

You can open the same page on another browser to play around and see changes in real time.

Contact

Tomas Melone - [email protected]

Project Link: https://github.com/tomimelo/sockets-projects

Acknowledgements

README template by @othneildrew