This is still in development. Many functionalities are incomplete.

Checked that this project works in Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS7).
I am not sure if this works in Windows/Mac, but this should work in them also because this is made by Java.

At first, you need Java8 and MariaDB (or mysql57) for the this project.

$ sudo apt-get install -y java-1.8.0-openjdk
$ sudo apt-get install -y mariadb-server

Clone the project in your local and compile it.
You need Maven to compile this.

$ git clone https://github.com/lechatthecat/JavaChatBoard.git
$ cd JavaChatBoard
$ mvn clean package 

You need to create default data in the DB.
The path for source command must be an absolute path.

$ sudo mysql -u [your user name of mariaDB] -p[your password of mariaDB]
$ source [PathToTheClonedJavaChatBoard]/JavaChatBoard/src/main/resources/sql/tables.sql
$ exit

You can start the project now.

$ cd [PathToTheClonedJavaChatBoard]/JavaChatBoard
$ java -jar ./target/chatboard-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Now this app should be running on http://localhost:8080

You have two test users by default.
id: test, password: 12345678
id: test2, password: 12345678

You need docker and docker-compose.
(If some service is already using port 8080 or 3306, please stop the service beforehand)

$ git clone https://github.com/lechatthecat/JavaChatBoard.git
$ cd ./JavaChatBoard
$ docker-compose build
$ docker-compose up -d

Then the web app should be running on: http://localhost:8080
To check containers' status:

$ docker ps -a

To stop docker containers:

$ sudo docker stop $(sudo docker ps -aq)

To delete docker objects:

$ docker system prune --volumes -f

To delete everything of docker:

$ docker-compose down -v --rmi all --remove-orphans
$ docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
$ docker rmi $(docker images -q)
$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -q)