TeaChat

A simple chatroom web app, written in NodeJS.

Requirements

To run TeaChat, you will only need Node.js and npm installed in your environement.

Node

• Node installation on Windows

  Just go to the official Node.js website and download the installer.

• Node installation on Ubuntu

  You can install nodejs and npm easily with apt install, just run the following commands.

  $ sudo apt install nodejs
  $ sudo apt install npm
  

• Other Operating Systems

  You can find more information about the installation on the official Node.js website and the official NPM website.

If the installation was successful, you should be able to run the following commands.

$ node --version
v8.11.3

$ npm --version
6.1.0

If you need to update npm:

$ npm install npm -g

Setting up TeaChat

Before starting TeaChat for the first time, cd into the TeaChat/ directory and run npm install.

Starting the TeaChat Server

To start the server, cd into the TeaChat/ directory and run node index.js.

TODO

Games

• Quizzes
• Rock, Paper, Scissors

Bots

• Google bot
• Translator bot

General

• Make the text cursor jump to the end of the text box as the user cycles through past messages with the arrow keys
• Detect when the user has modified the text box or submitted the message in order to reset the message history
• Add small icons/images/stickers that can be summoned using commands
• Unify the server-side code for joining the server and joining a new room
• Check mime types on images before broadcasting it to the room
• Add compression to image base64 send/recieve
• Admin/Moderator logon (with ban/kick permissions etc.)
• Use an external config file for changing things like port numbers and max lengths
• Add kick/ban functionality to the CLI
• Show a list of all other clients in the room on the client side
• UI redesign
• Dark/Light mode (command?)
• Show when chat participants are typing
• Desktop Notifications
• Rate limiting
• Allow the CLI to 'join' a room and view chat messages
• Whisper
• /changeNick command (and announce the name change to chat participants)
• MOTD
• Auto-detect connection loss
• Protect against clientside fiddling (recieving messages without being properly authenticated)
• Stop the address bar from collapsing on mobile
• Encryption (https/wss)
• Call scrollDown() whenever list is appended to rather than for every socket event
• Fix the sticky chat bar (make the buttons scale nicely on desktop/mobile)

Test