Chat Room app

Real-time chat room application with Angular, Node.js and Socket.io using mongoDB as database-as-a-Service by mLab.

Prerequisites

Make sure that you have Node and npm installed.

Installing

After downloading and extracting or cloning the project follow these instructions:

Client

1. Under chat-room-app/client/chat-app run npm install.
2. Make sure you have angular-cli globally installed and then run ng serve command.

Now angular application will run on localhost:4200.

Server

1. Under chat-room-app/server run npm install
2. Run npm start in order to start express server on port 3000.

Now you can launch http://localhost:4200/ from your browser and register to chat-room-app

Exstras

• Angular Authentication implemented with Http Client and Http Interceptors. this implementation involve user token that sent to server in every request.

• Real-time functionality implemented with socket.io library.

• MongoDB as database-as-a-Service by mLab using mongoose.

Author

• Meny Taieb