websocket-chat

A Websockets IRC-style chat server and client. It is written purely as a demo of Websockets functionality and probably servces no useful purpose!

The server is written in Python 3 using asyncio and the websockets library. The client is written in HTML5 and uses Bootstrap 3.

If you are using a Python version below 3.4, you will need to manually install the asyncio library as it is not included.

To start the server:

1. Install dependencies for the server (preferably in a virtualenv):

   $ pip install -r server/requirements.txt
   

2. Run the server on port 8080:

   $ python3 server/run.py
   

By default the server listens on 0.0.0.0:8080. If this is not desired, edit server/run.py:LISTEN_ADDRESS and html5client/ws.js:server.

To load the client:

1. Fire up the built-in Python web server and load the client from there:

   $ cd html5client
   $ python3 -m http.server
   $ $BROWSER 'http://localhost:8000/'