ChatJS

Aaron Dimaculangan and Amar Trivedi

A chat app built using Node.JS.

Use the Chrome web browser for the best experience.

Features

• Live Chat
• User registration
• User login
• User authentication using encryption techniques
• Dynamic web interface depending on user log in status
• AJAX real time updating for the chat application
• Priority message type selection
• Error handling

Technologies

• NodeJS, Express, MongoDB, and Mongoose for the backend.
• MongoDB for Data Persistence
• Event listeners and handlers
• JQuery
• Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern
• Uses State of the Art - Stable Diffusion - Gaussian Blur - AI technologies to generate app logo.
• Performance optimization techniques:
  • Tracks user relative position on page to determine whether to display most recent message.

Extra Features

• Uses Ajax calls to poll the server once per second. This gets an updated array of messages used to populate the chatbox.
• Labelling system:
  • Completed = Green
  • In Process = Orange
  • Pending = Yellow
  • Regular = None
• Supports a wide array of embedded media types:
  • Emoticons
  • GIF animations
  • Video embeddings