Author: Phil Oxrud
@poxrud

This is a websockets based chat server and web client. WebSockets are implemented using socket.io. The backend is running on Node.js with socket.io.

Live Example running on Heroku

http://websocketschat.herokuapp.com

Installation and Usage

1. Make sure you have Node.js and npm installed
2. Clone this repo with git clone https://github.com/poxrud/Websockets-Chat.git
3. cd Websockets-Chat
4. Install node.js dependencies with npm install
5. Run the server with: node server.js
6. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3001
7. Navigate another browser tab or a mobile device to the same url, http://localhost:3001