This is a lightweight student project that features basic chat functionality. It is built using plain HTML, CSS, JavaScript and NodeJS. Users can chat with other users and create groups to chat with many users at once.

A preview of SimpleChat can be found here!

This project requires a NodeJS installation (v.18) or higher. Please make sure you have it installed prior to setting up SimpleChat.

Simply execute the following command. All the required dependencies will automatically be installed.

npm i

This will start the express server running on the port configured in config.json. It will also establish a database connection using its configuration setting.

npm start