Chat Party

Chat Party is live chat application that allows users to create their own chat rooms and host group chats.

Purpose

I was interested in creating an application that used some kind of socket framework. I have been reading about Socket IO and it's js library to understand how sockets work and if I could successfully implement it and send events from the front end to the back end. This was a fun journey that hit the project requirements and achieved all the stretch goals.

Note: Socket IO USES websockets but it's not an implementation of websockets.

Technologies Used:

CRUD(CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE) using REST API, Node.js, Express, Live Chat using SocketIO, MongoDB, Mongoose, User Authentication with Express Session, Local Image Upload using Multer, HTML5, Bootstrap & JQuery.

Features to Meet Requirements:

• Create Chat room
• View All Chat rooms
• Update Chat room
• Delete Chat room
• Create User Account
• Update User Account
• View User Account

Stretch Goals:

• Integrate User Authentication & Authorization
• Integrate SocketIO
• Integrate Image Uploads
• Integrate Avatars and Usernames into live chat window

Biggest Challenges

• Creating Authorization to specific to currentUser
• Creating new chat rooms with one .ejs render
• Sending avatars and usernames via sockets into chat rooms

Workflow on Trello:

https://trello.com/invite/b/xeBeVRpr/d5075484bda28ab8f18efc44f4fa5860/sei-chat-party

Wireframes

////// Main Index /////

////// Create An Account /////

////// Log In /////

////// User Index /////

////// View All Chat Rooms /////

////// Chat Room /////

Demo

https://chat-party.herokuapp.com