WebChat

An ever-growing Node-based webchat built on Express and Socket.io.

Installation

Clone this repo by running git clone git://github.com/frxnz/WebChat.git

Install server dependencies

WebChat requires Node and Bower to install and run. The repo also includes a Gruntfile for watching/compiling Sass and running JSHint.

To run the chat start by installing the required packages.

In WebChat/app

Run the following commands to install the Node and Bower packages:

npm install
bower install

In WebChat/server

Run npm install to install the Node packages.

Finally, run node server from WebChat/server and the app should be available at localhost:3700.

Adding Users

Currently users are identified by IP. You can identify users by adding them to the users array in server.js.

Changelog

Varsion 0.1.1

Client-side now uses Backbone for views (all one of them).
Server is now more modular, which should make future improvements easier.
Lots of small improvements including...
- Image and URL replacement works better
- Chat actually scrolls to the bottom when images are inserted
- Chat area is bigger
- Sass! Modular CSS but also theming is now a lot easier

Version 0.1.0

We're just going to pretend this is the first version.
Basic chat functionality setup.
Added user list.
Added desktop notifications (these need a lot of work).
Added user typing notifications.

TODO

Near Future

~~Modularize the server, especially the socket.io portion.~~
~~Setup Backbone on the client-side to support views and routing.~~
Move users and logging to MongoDB.
Add support for multiple 'rooms', private messaging.
Add active/idle/probably offline status icons.

The distant future, the year 2000

Setup server to route to organization subdomains.
Setup organization, user, and guest registration.
Create admin/settings area.

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Derek Wheelden

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