Chat Application in Vanilla JS

A real-time chat application using Node, Express & Socket.io

Live Demo: Chat App.

Some features of the app:

1. Users will be able to join a chat room using a username (No authentication has been implemented for now)
2. Users will see a list of users in the current chat room
3. When a user sends a message all other users in that room will get the message instantly
4. When a user joins or leaves a room, other users will see a notification

Stacks used:

1. Node and Express (for Backend server)
2. Socket.io (to send and get messages in real-time)
3. Vanilla JS

To run the app in your local machine, please follow the steps bellow:

1. Clone the repo
2. Run npm install in the terminal/cmd window to install all the dependencies
3. Aftar installation complete, run npm run dev
4. Once the server is running, go to http://localhost:5000/ from your browser
5. Enjoy 👍

This app has been made following the tutorial made by Brad in his Youtube channel Traversy Media.

Tutorial link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD7FnbI76Hg