Simple Chat

An online messaging platform similar in spirit to Slack made using Flask, available here.

Installation

Install the required dependencies/libraries by running :

 pip install -r requirements.txt

  python application.py

👤 User Authentication : Allows users to sign up on the platform and login later to view older messages.
🌗 Dark Theme/ Light Theme : The app also comes in dark theme, for the ones who prefer the dark side.
👥 Group Conversation : Allows multiple people to chat with each other in public channels.
#️⃣ Channel Creation : You can create channels to have conversations about different topics in a well organized manner.
🔒 Private Conversations : And for all your personal stuff, we've got private messages so that you can share your secrets without anyone knowing about it.
📎 File Attachments : Sometimes you may need to share important work documents with each other or your cute dog photos.
🙂 Emoji Picker : It gets boring with only text, so we also let you express yourself using emojis with built-in emoji picker.
💬 Typing Indicator : So that you can get instant feedback if your friend is typing a message before they finally send it.
📱 Mobile Friendly : You can even talk to your friends on the move on your phone, since the site is mobile friendly.

FontAwesome : Beautiful icons for creating user interfaces.
Client Side SocketIO : Allows clients to communicate with the server.
Emojionearea : Lets you add emoji picker to your app.
SweetAlert2 : A beautiful, responsive, modern replacement for JavaScript popup boxes.
MomentJs : Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates and times in JavaScript.
MomentJs Timezone : Parse and display dates in any timezone.

Flask : The app is built using Flask a micro web framework written in Python.
Flask-SocketIO : It relies on the SocketIO framework to transmit your messages between the users in real-time.
Flask-Bcrypt : Uses flask-bcrypt package to store your passwords securely in the database.
SQLAlchemy : Provides an interface to interact with database.