nodeChat
A simple, web-based chat room, combining the worst of IRC and Discord by only including a tiny fraction of the features of either.
Initially created to toy with (the then-relatively new) nodeJS, practice jQuery, and learn to use git/GitHub. Now it's a "mature" project I intend to use as fodder for further learning.
Coming soon:
- Modernize!
- Convert everything to use ES modules
- Other assorted new JS features should render most/all of underscore.js jQuery unnecessary
- Update the other dependency, socket.io from 1.3 to latest (4.x?) (or, maybe, work towards dropping it in favor of using web sockets directly?)
- Probably some other code cleanup. My style/taste has changed (hopefully for the better) since 2013-17.
- Dockerize! I'm late to the containerization party, but catching up doesn't seem too difficult.
- (Maybe) Deno-ize! Deno and TypeScript are obviously way cooler than nodeJS and plain JavaScript! So what if the name won't be accurate anymore...
I might even get to some of those old feature requests, who knows?