/Stopover-chat

MEVN app using Socket.IO for live chat and Stripe API to handle payment

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Stopover-chat

This is a MEVN app using Socket.IO for live chat and Stripe API to handle payment.

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Features

  • Full Stack application

    Vue.js on client side / Node.js on server side.

  • Instant messaging

    Using Socket.IO

  • User can create and/or join public or private room (protected by password)

  • Non premium user can't create more than one chat room per 12h

    Client IP is stored and checked.

  • Chat rooms are auto-destroyed 12 hours after being created.

    This is a "fly-away" chat. Countdown is displayed in the chat room.

  • Room's name and username verification

    Two chat rooms can't have the same name and two user can't have the same username inside the some room.

  • A premium user can create an illimited number of chat rooms

    To become premium you have to subscribe a monthly billing (with one month free trial !).

  • Stripe API is used to handle payment.

    With a demo card number for the needs of this project.

  • Stripe webhooks

    • Update a customer’s membership record in my database when a subscription payment succeeds.
    • Send a subscription or a cancelation email.

  • Sending emails

    Welcome emails, password reset flow and cancellation emails are sent with SendGrid

  • Special admin authorizations

    User who creates a chat room is the admin of this one.
    As an admin he gets two powers : to block an user or to ban an user.
    A blocked user will be able to read messages but not to post its.
    A banned user is pushed out of the room and can't connect again unless to be unbaned.

  • IP checking

    In addition to preventing non premium user from creating more than one room, banned user's IP is blacklisted. (Only the username is blacklisted in this demo version).

  • Setting status

    Users can set status "online", "busy" or "absent"

  • Downloading chat history

    Users can dowload their chat history in pdf. History of each user begins when he joins the room.

  • Authentification

    Sign up / Sign in / Sign out with encrypted password stored in database.

  • Cookies and JSON Web Tokens

    Are used to manage Authorization

  • Database Schemas and Document Relationships

    Two models are used and managed with Mongoose : Rooms and Users.

  • REST API

    RESTful API with Node and Express.

  • MVC Pattern

  • Server Deployment

    Deployed on Heroku.