final-project-chat-application created by GitHub Classroom

Welcome to Flow! You can connect with your social circle by sending messages and creating group chats.

Functionalities -

• Designed a chat application with features such as profile creation, personal and group messaging

• Created an interactive user interface in Javascript implementing AngularJS, Middleware in Express.js and Node.js

• Implemented user authentication using JSON web token for the login functionality

• Stored messages using NoSQL database MongoDB to persist chat messages and group messages

How to run - The project has two applications in the root folder.

1. flow-app - angular client
2. flow_server - nodeJS server

To run flow-app, change your directory to the flow-app folder and run the following commands-

1. npm install
2. ng serve

To run flow_server, change your directory to the flow_server folder and run the following commands-

1. npm install
2. node server

By now, the server will be running on port 3000 and the client will be running on port 4200

You can open http://localhost:4200 to access the application