real-time-chat-application
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A Real-time private and group messaging chat application with Node.js
Real Time Chat Application
This application built using Node.js, Express, Socket.io, Mongoose, RESTful Web Service.
Features
Installation
Running Locally
Make sure you have Node.js and npm install.
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Clone or Download the repository
git clone https://github.com/batuhaniskr/real-time-chat-application.git $ cd Real-Time-Chat-Application
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Install Dependencies
npm install
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MongoDB start for need
mongod
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Start the Application
node app.js
Application runs from localhost:3000.
How It Works
A database called "chat_db" named is created via code. The nickname, msg, group information is also kept in the table named Messages.
User to user, As a publication broadcast or group in the room messaging. User to user messaging:
/w username messagetextthe message is sent as.
Sockets
Having an active connection opened between the client and the server so client can send and receive data. This allows real-time communication using TCP sockets. This is made possible by Socket.io.
The client starts by connecting to the server through a socket(maybe also assigned to a specific namespace). Once connections is successful, client and server can emit and listen to events.
RESTful
Using HTTP requests, we can use the respective action to trigger every of these four CRUD operations.