socket.io Real-time Chat

I recently want to use socket.io for a project. So for it i created a basic real time chat using socket.io in few minutes.

Style by MaterializeCSS

Github Repo

Run

• Make sure you have Nodejs or iojs installed
• Make sure you have gulp installed globally. If not run

npm install -g gulp

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/iamchathu/nodejs-socket-io-chat.git

• Go to nodejs-socket-io-chat folder

cd nodejs-socket-io-chat

• Then run

npm install

• Then run the project by

gulp serve

• Open a browser and visit ‘http://localhost:5000'

(Better to use multiple windows of browser with same url)

Fork It, Use It

Todo

• Scrollable chat
• SPA Front-end with nicknames
• Save chat messages with infinite scroll