node_chat

Realtime chat developed during 'All about Node.js' class

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development purposes.

Prerequisites

To install you will need NPM preferentially 8^ Version , redis installed and a Mlab account

Installing

# install dependencies
npm install

# Config development.json
xdg-open app/config/development.json

# Run redis locally
yourpath$ ./src/redis-server

# Start node server
node server.js

Built With

Express - The Node framework used
Socket.io - Realtime application framework
MongoDB - NoSQL database
MLab - Database-as-service
Redis - In-memory data structure store

Authors

Breno Silva - Initial work - Brenopms

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details