This project aims to provide basic chat functionality to a certain group of people. This project is for ESC101A (Introduction to Computing).

Mentored by: Govind Gopakumar (@govg)

Chat-Application

• 25th February: Learnt how Websockets work, and how we require a HTTP server to serve requests from a browser. Used an implementation of a webserver in Python, SimpleWebSocketServer.

• 27th February: Added basic Frontend elements, still need to figure out the complete Frontend layout. Urgent TODO: Form the backend quickly

• 1st March: Changing backend server from Python to a NodeJS HTTP Server, front-end remains some. Decision taken due to a lot of shortcomings using a Python backend, such as poor support of handling events, etc. (Would have to use a lot of libraries and still would not have got the required result)

• 4th March: Basic layout completed, need to add authentication and rooms option needs to be integrated with Frontend. Approximating deadline as 8th March for this.

• 6th March: Implementing Passport.js for session rememberance, and authentication. Quite a lot of work. Working on Routes, since if authentication is added, the server needs to handle if someone unauthenticated doesn't get sensitive (:P) information.

• 27th March: Fixed up a lot of things, implemented Passport.js and sessions completely.

• 10th April: Implememted room-wise history of messages, and improved GUI.

• 15th April: Deployed the App to Heroku, and wrote some test cases.

.
├── chat-app
│   ├── app.js
│   ├── bin
│   │   └── www
│   ├── config
│   │   ├── database.js
│   │   └── passport.js
│   ├── models
│   │   ├── chat.js
│   │   ├── room.js
│   │   ├── roomModel.js
│   │   └── user.js
│   ├── npm-debug.log
│   ├── package.json
│   ├── public
│   │   ├── images
│   │   │   └── user.jpg
│   │   ├── javascripts
│   │   │   └── script.js
│   │   └── stylesheets
│   │       └── style.css
│   ├── routes
│   │   └── index.js
│   ├── test
│   │   ├── database_checks.js
│   │   └── server_checks.js
│   └── views
│       ├── chatroom.ejs
│       ├── error.ejs
│       ├── index.ejs
│       ├── login.ejs
│       ├── rooms.ejs
│       └── signup.ejs
└── README.md

Tests have been implemented using the Mocha library, and Chai-assertion library.