NodeJS Web Chat with Smileys

This is a simple socket based web chat app. It's built with NodeJS, Jade, Express and SocketIO on the backend and jQuery, Bootstrap and SocketIO on the frontend.

Usage

• This application requires that you have:

    NodeJS installed (download it from http://nodejs.org/)
  

Local

• Clone the repo

• run the following commands inside the project folder

    npm install
    node app.js
  

• The app should be running at localhost:3000

In the wild

• If you're planning on running this on a server:

    Open the "public\js\scripts.js" file
    Change the "serverHost" variable to point to your Node server (as localhost is used by default)