simple-chat-server/README.md

Simple TCP Server

This is a project of my Computer Internet course a project inspired by my school homework.

Several days before I'm asked to write a project on TCP server-client communication, and I wondered why not build a simple chat service beyond that which would be much more fun?

Therefore here it is, a simple tcp server with several functions which makes it acts like a small chat app.

Functions

• User register / login / logout
• Remember login state for device (simple token approach though)
• Send messages via users
• Search users and add contacts (and accept them of course)
• Message sync via different devices
• Send message to offline server (a SMTP-like approach)
• File handling (transfer to and fetch from server)

Notice

• To support multilanguage, use base64Encode(utf8.encode(yourMessageHere)) before wrapping client messages in json object and sending that to the server (the serve will crash!)
• Always open a new TCP connection to fetch or send file