node_chat

A self contained chat server running on node, based on WebSocket. This server currently has many bugs and security holes. It's currently aimed as an experiment on WebSockets and node.js capability to handle socket connections. The code is also currently poorly commented.

How to run

In order to run this server, you will need node.js installed in your system. After installing node.js (make sure you have npm installed) you have to install two of the node modules. websocket and fs.

npm install websocket
npm install fs

If the first command doesn't work you can use,

npm install websocket@1.0.3

Then you can simply write in command line while insde the chatServer directory.

node chatServer.js

Then you can enjoy chatting. Simply give the URL as to your friends and they can join in. The URL should be in this format, http://your_ip_address:8080. In your browser you can put http://localhost:8080 to connect to the chat.

How to change the default port

By default if you will run on port 8080. You can change is by simply chaging number in chatServer.js (line 47). The line looks like this,

server.listen(8080, function() {

Thanks to

http://martinsikora.com/nodejs-and-websocket-simple-chat-tutorial The server code is based on this tutorial...