Chat-Application

Terminologies

1. Web server (hosts the UI/Content)
2. Application server (backend - performs the logic)
3. Client/End-user

Features

• Multi-client chat application
• Configure workspace & rooms via JSON
• Bootstrap/CSS-grid UI
• Real-time user count in a given channel (room)
• Chat history
• Console debug statements to explain the flow
• A client can be active in 1 room of a channel

Restrictions:

• No login/logout
• Cannot add workspace or channel from the client side
• Will not persist chat history on server side or client side (after server shutdown)
• Note: The contents of the user session are destroyed when the client disconnects. In particular, user session contents are not preserved when a client reconnects after an unexpected disconnection from the server.

Installation Steps:

Front-End

• execute (chmod +x front-end/server.sh)

To start the front-end server:

• execute cd front-end
• execute ./server.sh

Back-End

Execute the following from the py-back-end folder:

• pip3 install wheel
• pip3 install python-socketio
• pip3 install asyncio
• pip3 install aiohttp
• pip3 install aiohttp_cors

To start the back-end server:

• execute cd py-back-end
• execute python3 web-server.py