An experimental server that utilises HTML5 WebSockets to communicate with multiple clients. Includes a free simple WebSocket Client to communicate with the server!

This server is meant to be hosted on Heroku.

• This project has two components:
  • The main WebSocket server
  • The supporting WebSocket client
• The WS server is developed in ES6, is transpiled into JavaScript using Babel, and runs on Node.
• The client is a simple standalone JS+HTML5+CSS app.

Project anatomy:

• The WebSocket server's source code is stored in /src and compiled into /app
• The WebSocket client's code is in /web. That's raw code; no compilation is necessary.
• This project is meant to be run as a server.

Starting the project:

1. Run npm install to install project dependencies.
2. Run npm start to start the server.
3. The WebSocket server is running quietly on ws://localhost:4000
4. The WebSocket client can be viewed at http://localhost:3000 or by opening /web/index.html.

• Note: this meants there are two servers running; the main WS server at port 4000 and a simple web server to serve the client app at port 3000.

Alternatively, there's a developer mode:

1. npm install
2. npm run dev
3. http://localhost:3000
4. Changes to the WS server's JS code will compiled automatically. Note that this will cause the WS server to restart every time a file is changed.

Deploying on Heroku:

1. TODO