Casey Largent, Kevin Nicklen, and Erik Shafer

"Develop a simple chat client in the language of your choice." - Gregory Gelfond (2017)

Using the NodeJS JavaScript runtime, we developed a chatroom reminiscent of an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) application. The chat process works on a client/server networking model. Clients are required to obtain the ClientSocket.js application, as it comes pre-configured to connect to the ServerSocket.js application.

• NodeJS: Node is a runtime environment for JavaScript. It must be downloaded (https://nodejs.org/en/, latest stable is 8.9.1) to run the application.

1. To start the server application: /node ServerSocket.js
2. Enter the maximum amount of chat clients allowed.
3. You're now good to begin running clients!

1. To start the client application: /node ClientSocket.js
2. Enter your nickname
3. Begin chatting!

1. Commands: /nick and /help: There is an issue that once a client types in either /nick and /help, they will need to hit enter (return carriage) one more time. This is due to the chat submission implementation that begins with the > arrow, and how the last command submitted it overwritten with a timestamp, nickname, and chat message.

   • Help command /help
   • Blank line.
   • Hit enter to dispaly arrow >
   • User types message: > hello
   • Processed message: [23:59:59] Erik: hello

• Entering the Server

• Users already connected are displayed in a list for the newly connected client. If no one is connected, the client is encouraged to invite friends.

• Help Command

• /help

• Brings up commands to help users understand the client application better.

• Away From Keyboard

• /afk

• Inbound messages are not shown to the client. A notification for going or coming back from AFK is broadcasted to the server.

• Exiting the Server

• /exit Properly exits the server.

• Broadcasts across chat.

• Changing Nickname

• /nick [arg]

• Replace [arg] with your new nickname.

• Broadcasts change to chat.