A simple chat application built with Express and Socket.Io just for fun.
- Clone the repository.
- Move into the root folder and install the dependencies using
npm install
. - Run command:
npm run start
. - Open: http://localhost:3000
Pre-requisites: Docker engine
- Clone the repository.
- Move into the root folder.
- Run command:
make build
This builds docker image with necessary dependencies. - Run command:
make run
- Open http://localhost:3000 on multiple tabs.
If you want to quickly share this application to your friends and try out, you can do that from your local machine using a HTTP tunneling tool called Ngrok.
- Download ngrok executable.
- Go to downloads folder in terminal and run
./ngrok http 3000
- It will give you
http
andhttps
link which look something likehttp://fdcce4cc.ngrok.io
which you can share with anyone.
If you kill ngrok, the link(and app) will stop working.