A real time messaging chat application built with Flask, SocketIO and MongoDB. Minimal, easy to use and modify web based chat application, built with the power of Flask.
- Login and Registration.
- Users can update username, email and their passwords.
- Users can create or join a room, the user who creates a room has admin abilities to edit and kick members from the room.
- Simple and friendly UI built with Bootstrap5.
- Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/FunnyDev1228/flask-chat-app - Cd into the project directory
cd ./flask-chat-app
Use pip install -r requirements.txt to install all required modules from requirements.txt.
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Create your own Mongo Database either locally or on Mongo Atlas (Preffered).
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Create sequence value incrementer for
room_idin MongoDB, here is an example:from pymongo import MongoClient client = MongoClient('MongoDB_URI') # Create or access the sequences collection db = client['your_database_name'] sequences_collection = db['sequences'] # sequence name can be `room_id` def get_next_sequence_value(sequence_name): result = sequences_collection.find_one_and_update( {"_id": sequence_name}, {"$inc": {"sequence_value": 1}}, upsert=True, # Create the sequence if it doesn't exist return_document=True # Return the updated document ) return result["sequence_value"]
Happy Coding! 💻🎉