Introduction

This is a simple chat application developed using ionic

Refer below article for detail guidance (Recomended),
https://medium.com/@shamique/simple-chat-application-using-ionic-and-socket-io-82d9b4605cc3

Pre-requisite

• NodeJs & ionic 2 installed in the machine

How to run ?

Chat Server

• Create a directory for chat server and go to that folder
• run npm init and initiate a new NodeJs project
• Install socket.io: npm install socket.io --save
• Create filename as server.js and add below code in it

var socket = require('socket.io'), http = require('http'),
server = http.createServer(), socket = socket.listen(server);

	socket.on('connection', function(connection) {
		console.log('User Connected');

		 connection.on('message', function(msg){
			 socket.emit('message', msg);
		 });
	});

	server.listen(3000, function(){
		console.log('Server started');
	});

• Run the chat server: node server.js

Chat Client

• Clone the repo to your machine
• Go to the project folder and run npm install
• run the project, ionic serve