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Real time Chat with socket.io, node.js, express.js and Angular.js

Tutorial for building this web chat coming soon at http://www.tomarea.com/

Prerequisites

Node.js and npm installed, see : http://nodejs.org/
Bower.io installed. If not already the case, just run this command npm install -g bower

Installation

Procedure

Clone the project
Run npm install command at the root of the project (it install node modules dependencies and bower components)
Launch the web chat with the node index.js command

Releases

v1.0 : Very basic chat, it can be use to learn how to build a real time app

Features

Communication between unlimited users
Display a list of connected users

Evolutions in progress

Avoid send entire list of users in each join / exit event
Edit username possibility
Set a cookie to disallow the creation of a user when opening browser tabs
Creation of private chat rooms
Sharing medias like images, links ...
Add unit tests
Store recent messages in local storage
Translate interface english/french