README.md

Chat-app-Node

Simple chat application that supports users and rooms. For users to be able to chat with each other, they have to enter the same room. If the room that users want to access doesn't exist, it will be created automatically.

The deployment of the application can be found here.

Build

1. Install the node.js.
2. Initialise the npm

npm init

3. Pull the code from the github.
4. Install all of the dependencies for the chat

npm install

5. Run in developer mode

npm run dev

or run in the production mode

npm start

Third-party libraries:

Server-side:

Following is a list of third-party libraries used in building this web service:

• express
• bad-words
• socket.io
• nodemon

Client-side:

• mustache.js
• moment.js
• qs