a-chat: Anonymous Chat

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy -the shining ( 1980 )

a-chat: A real-time chat application, based on WebSockets, used for meeting up with some random strangers and keeping your identity anonymous.

Description

So this chat application which serves from 00:00 to 01:00 only :P , creates an interface of chat between pairs of anonymous users among all the users online.

Features

• Real-time interaction with WebSockets
• Video and Audio calls using WebRTC

Things to learn

• How to create a basic node chat application, for say 200 users.
• Solving complexities like reconnection after server restart.
• Scaling the server with a cluster of node applications, using docker, and still maintaining an internode connection between all sockets/users.
• Large scaling for a million users and load testing.

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Proposed Tech. Stack

• MERN MongoDB, ExpressJS, NodeJS, ReactJS
• socket.io
• docker

Steps to setup locally and run:

• Install Node.js

Deploying this app requires node package manager npm and the development server requires nodemon to be installed using:

npm i -g nodemon

• Clone the repository

Download this repository or

git clone https://github.com/pclubiitj/a-chat.git
cd a-chat

• Install dependencies

npm install

• Run server

npm start

The server will start listening by default at http://localhost:3000

• Run development server using nodemon

npm run dev

Team

Name	Year	Department
Kunal Tawatia	Sophomore	Computer Science and Engineering
Rohan Singh	Freshman	Electrical Engineering
Tarun Tomar	Freshman	Computer Science and Engineering
Pratyaksh Tyagi	Freshman	Electrical Engineering
Harish Kumar	Freshman	Computer Science and Engineering
Harshil Bhatia	Freshman	Computer Science and Engineering
Shubham Agrawal	Freshman	Bio Engineering
Abhishek Raghav	Freshman	Computer Science and Engineering
Saptashrungi	Freshman	Computer Science and Engineering
Bhawna Chopra	Freshman	Electrical Engineering
Anshul Goyal	Freshman	Computer Science and Engineering
Akshika Gupta	Freshman	Computer Science And Engineering

Steps to join

1. Star this repo.
2. Push a PR in this README, adding your details in the above table.