README.md

FSE Chat Room

Simple single chat room app that implements a REST API using express and also a client web app using HTML5, Material Design and Angular

This project contains two modules:

fse-chat-client
fse-char-server

• Frameworks Used:
  • Express
  • Socket.io
  • MongoDB
  • Mongoose (Schema and simple API for DAO generation)
  • Angular
  • Material Design CSS getmdl.io

fse-chat-server

Database of choice to persist user data and messages: MongoDB

The component choice to access the database was Mongoose (use of schemas)

The server component of this project consists in an Express 4 node web app that serves only the purpose of exposing a REST API that contains the following endpoints

POST - messages
	{
		"message" : "Content of chat message",
		"sent_at": 1484119573957
	}
POST - user
	{
		"username": "userA",
		"status": "online"
	}
GET - messages
	@returns array of messages from mongodb	
GET - user
	@returns array of users from mongodb