Real-time Chat Application 💬

Fully working chat application project built using Java EE Spring Boot WebSocket & Angular 9

Table of content

• About the project
• Getting Started
• Installation
• Author

About the project

Fully working real-time chat application to practice spring WebSocket and STOMP as a simple text-based messaging protocol to establish a persistent connection between a client and server to deliver and receive chat messages instantly without the use of long-polling.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Front-End ( Angular )

  • A stable version of node installed on your machine
  • Npm
    • npm install npm@latest -g
  • Angular CLI
    • npm install -g @angular/[email protected]

• Back-End ( Spring Boot )

  • Java SDK v1.8 or higher
  • Apache Maven 3.3 or above

Installation

Clone the repo 😊

git clone https://github.com/Houssem-Selmi/websocket-project.git

Back-End ( Spring Boot )

• Open the folder 'websocket-project-backend' with your favorite Java IDE

• Run the Spring Boot Java project

Front-End ( Angular )

Access the Front-End folder

cd websocket-project-frontend

Install the dependencies

npm install

Start the angular project

ng serve 

Now you should see the application running in your browser, type a username and start the chat.

Congrats 👏 🎉

Now everything is set up correctly and you can start exploring the real-time chat application 💬

Author

Houssem Selmi ✏️

• https://github.com/Houssem-Selmi
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/hselmi/

License

Code released under the MIT License.