Flask-SocketIO-ChatApp

Description

Building a simple chat application for fun as part of learning more about python flask and socket-IO.

Setup

1. Create a separate conda environment using the existing environment.yml file
2. Acivate the conda environment, clone the repo and cd into the directory
3. Run python mainApp.py. By default it is served on 0.0.0.0 and silent mode, else you can specify the parameters --hostIp <some IP> --debug True

App Preview

TODO

• Create Separate Chat Rooms which are exclusive to each other
• Better UI and styling
• Add security and session management on both client-server side
• Download and save chat as text

Please feel free to add and contribute

References

1. Awesome blog by Miguel Grinberg