ChatApp

This project was made as an assessment for a job interview.

Objective

Write a very simple ‘chat’ application backend in PHP. A user should be able to send a simple text message to another user and a user should be able to get the messages sent to him and the author users of those messages. The users and messages should be stored in a simple SQLite database. All communication between the client and server should happen over a simple JSON based protocol over HTTP (which may be periodically refreshed to poll for new messages). A GUI, user registration and user login are not needed but the users should be identified by some token or ID in the HTTP messages and the database. You have the freedom to use any framework and libraries;

Setup

Normally I like to deliver this kind of project with a simple setup.sh script that sets the project up in one go. But this time I will not do that, mainly because this is running with Vue and Symfony that provide servers of their own.

Therefore this project has a very basic setup that has some requirements. If you can use the Servers of Symfony and Vue(npm) on your machine you should be able to run the project, please take a look at the documentation of Vue-cli and Symfony if you are havin trouble.

Steps

clone this project
clone the Backend of it...
on the Backend folder run composer install
on the Backend folder run php bin/console doctrine:database:create
on the Backend folder run php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate
on the Backend folder run php bin/console server:run
on this project folder run npm install
on this project folder run npm run dev

Your browser will open on the project url automatically and you will be greeted into the app.

Usage

In order to see the application running you should register at leaset 2 users, and open them in 2 tabs caution if you refresh the tab you will have to login again.

Invite each other with the email address and start chatting, everything should be working nicely.

Notes