The chosen-chat-room app

a personal project geared to learning websockets and real-time chats or updates

Frontend

The front-end is a static HTML page that uses the backend API to send and receive messages.

Note: The front end is only styled for Desktop.

The front-end is hosted here

--> https://muchubatactics.github.io/chosen-chat-app/ <--

If you clone the repo and you want to run it locally, follow the instructions below. To run the front-end, you just need a browser.

Steps to run the front-end

• Open the front-end folder
• Click on the index.html file to open the app in your browser

Backend

Installation

• Make sure you've docker installed on your machine. The rest of the dependencies will be installed in a container so you don't need to worry about them

Running the app

• This app is containerized, so you can run it by running the following command in the root directory of the app

cd back-end && bash ./containerize.sh

This will pull the app's image from docker hub and run it in a container. The app will be running on port 3000 at a URL of http://localhost:3000

NOTES

• By default, the websocket server is running on port 3000 at a URL of http://localhost:3000