# chat

**Repository Path**: crazycat-tj/chat

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: chat
- **Description**: Simple Chat built with Node.js, Socket.io, Express & Redis (+ client built with Bootstrap)
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-07-09
- **Last Updated**: 2021-07-09

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# SimpleChat

Built with:

  - <strong>Server side:</strong> Node.js, Socket.io, Express, Redis
  - <strong>Client side:</strong> HTML5 Boilerplate, Bootstrap, Handlebars and jQuery

This is just a <strong>proof of concept</strong> of what could be done with these technologies.

### Requires

  - Node.js
  - NPM (Node Package Manager)
  - Redis

### Get the code

    git clone https://github.com/tegioz/chat.git

### Run

Fetch dependencies:

    npm install

Launch Redis:
    
    redis-server

Launch chat server:
    
    (don't forget to launch Redis before!)

    node chatServer.js

Now open this URL in your browser:

    http://localhost:8888/

and you're done ;)

### Broadcast API

Send messages to all connected users:

    Content-Type: application/json
    POST /api/broadcast/

    {"msg": "Hello!"}