mtaghavian/simple-chat

Simple full-stack chat application using Spring Boot, HTML, CSS and Javascript

What is this

This is a simple chat application demonstrating Spring Boot capabilities such as:

• Authentication
  • Using session validation (Login)
  • Using cookies (Remember me functionality)
  • Using basic authentication
• Self-signed HTTPS connection
• Web socket
• Download/Upload files
• JPA persistence
• Redirecting to login page for logging in, then redirecting to desired page after that
• Caching files in memory for better performance (Reloads file based on date-modified)
• Clearing expired session after 1-hour idle
• Keeping sessions in memory for better performance

This application also demonstrates some user interface capabilities such as:

• Modal
• Toast or notification
• Web socket
• Responsive
• HttpRequest

How to use

1. Build application with "mvn package"
2. Run application with "java -jar target/simplechat-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"
3. Use Firefox or Chrome to open http://localhost:62600/
4. Sign-up at least two user accounts
5. Start chatting, you can do the following:
   • Send text massages
   • Upload files to create file messages
   • Download files by clicking on file-messages

About

Masoud Taghavian (masoud.taghavian@gmail.com)
Enjoy!

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