html-chatbox
How to build an HTML chatbox with Chatkit - https://pusher.com/tutorials/html-chatbox-chatkit
Getting Started
Clone the project repository by running the command below if you use SSH
$ git clone git@github.com:ammezie/html-chatbox.git
If you use https, use this instead
$ git clone https://github.com/ammezie/html-chatbox.git
After cloning,run:
$ npm install
Prerequisites
Sign up for Chatkit
To get started, sign up for Chatkit. Then create a Chatkit instance.
Open server.js
and replace INSTANCE_LOCATOR
and SECRET_KEY
with your instance keys. Also, INSTANCE_LOCATOR
inside index.html
.
Finally, start the server:
$ node server.js
Then the client:
$ http-sever
Note: I'm using
http-sever
to start the client, you can use your preferred development server.
and visit http://localhost:8080/ to see the application in action.