chat-server-ws

A simple Websockets based chat server using the Node.js ws package.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Clone the repository.

Install dependencies from within the cloned repository directory

npm install

You should ensure a port is available for connecting clients, which is port 3000 by default.

If you want to use a port other than 3000, you will need to adust this in the code.

From within the cloned directory

npm start

Once running, you will now be be able to connect to the chat server via your open port, with an appropriate chat client e.g. react-client-chat

This chat server allows multiple clients to connect and allow users to chat.
It makes use of ws's facility to use ping/pong messages to detect broken connections between server and client. If a broken connection is detected, the connection is forcibly closed.
Clients are uniquely identified.
All chat messages are sent to all connected clients.
The chat server periodically broadcasts a message to all connected clients.