/api-chat-backend

Backend for chat application with MongoDB express

Primary LanguageJavaScript

NodeJS API for private chatting app built using Angular

This is NodeJS API for private chatting app built using Angular. The API is built using Nodejs (version 8.9.4) and MongoDB(version 3.6.3).

Installation

The below commands to install this API.

  1. npm install
  2. node server.js

Explanation and Blog Post

I have written a complete article on this application in three parts, for more details and Code explanation.

  1. Blog Post Part 1 => Covers the prerequisites, server configuration setup and REST API along with socket.io integration on the server.
  2. Blog Post Part 2 => This part covers the configuration our angular application and application Routing and implementation our application’s services.
  3. Blog Post Part 3 => Implementation of Login and Registration functionality.
  4. Blog Post Part 4 => Building homepage of the application where the user actually can chat with each other.

Looking for Plain Old AngularJS

I have written this application in AngularJs as well, Read this popular Blog post, which has more than 50k views and 100000 downloads approx.