/socket-chat

Primary LanguageC++

A Chat Application using Unix network sockets featuring user authentication, multiple chatrooms and private messaging & terminal based user interface (inspired by IRC).

Features

  • user authentication - register, login
  • makes uses of a persistent object-based database to store user data
  • join multiple chatrooms and get messages from each
  • get list of chatrooms, create own chatroom
  • get list of people in a chatroom
  • private messaging
  • access from multiple computers in a network (not just a localhost app!)
  • terminal based user interface (with colors ❤️ and altscreen)

Video Demo:

video coming soon

Contributors:

How to Run

cd cpp
make # requires make and g++ with C++14 support installed

To start the server:

./server
# or ./server PORT BACKLOG
# like: ./server 4000

Defaults:

  • PORT: 8000
  • BACKLOG: 5

To start a client:

./client
# or ./client HOST PORT

Defaults:

  • HOST: 127.0.0.1
  • PORT: 8000

You can get the HOST for your server through ifconfig command.