Chatbox

A simple chatbox app adapted from Socket.io's chat example, it allows file transfer and image/video can be rendered directly.

How to use

$ cd chatbox
$ npm install
$ node index.js

And point your browser to http://localhost:4321.

To embed this chatbox into a web page, just copy paste the content in public/index.html to the page you want to have chatbox, then change all http://localhost to your domain name (don't forget the one in client.js).

Other features

• User can change nickname at any time.
• Show recent chat history.
• Sound notification when new user join or receive new message.
• Support unstable Internet connection.
• If you want to magnify images, just include fancybox library.
• Admin can run JavaScript on users' browser (use with cautious).

Future plan

• Improve chat history feature, currently only storing latest 20 messages
• Improve file transfer support, currently file larger than 10MB may fail to transfer due to timeout, and client side may freeze once receive large file.
• Add admin authentication.

Screenshot

from https://github.com/rong77/Chatbox