web-msngr is personal messaging webapp (akin to Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp Web) designed using the MEAN stack and Socket.io.
A live demo of the application can be found hosted using Google Cloud here.
You can get started by signing up, adding a friend to your friends list (try adding dummy@test.com if you want to add a dummy account), and then create a chat!
Using a MongoDB instance, all information is stored server side and populated from the NoSQL database. This allows for features such as:
- Creating an account
- Adding friends to your friends list
- Creating multiple group chats and saving them
Using socket broadcasting and emitting, everything in web-msngr happens in real time:
- Messages sent between users appear instantly
- Chats created by one user appear immediately for all participants
- Notifications from different chats work seamlessly together
After clone the repository, you'll need to set the following environment variables:
- mongdb: the connection string for your mongo database
- username: the username for your database
- password: the password for your database
- secret: the secret key you want to use to hash user passwords
You may choose to add a .env file with these file types or you can update the app.yaml file if you wil be deploying using google cloud.
You can then run npm install to install all dependencies and build the angular front end. By default, if no port is specified npm start will start an instance of web-msngr on localhost:3000.