Simple Messenger For A Small Group

Features

• Simple profile construction (signup)
• Token-protected authentication (login & session)
• List all users on the system
• Private live chat
• Track user status (whether they're online or not)

How To Run

Make sure the environment is correctly setup. Check "Environment Setup" below.

First clone the repo

Then cd into the root folder (MEANMazinger) and run npm install

Then cd into MEANMazinger/staticDir/frontend/ and also run npm install, then run ng build

Finally go back to the root folder (MEANMazinger) and run node server.js

Hopefully the project should be accessible from the link "http://localhost:5001/" :)

Environment Setup

This project assumes an Ubuntu 16.04 system with the MEAN stack environment installed (node.js & npm & mongodb)

before anything just do sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade just in case.

Installing node.js

download script and run curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.0/install.sh | bash and wait for it

then in a new terminal install: nvm install 6.9.5

and do nvm alias default 6.9.5

and finally nvm use 6.9.5

also install sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev

...to check do node --version and npm --version

after that install angular-cli globaly npm install -g @angular/cli (we'll need it later)

Installing mongodb

Add their key sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv EA312927

Add their repo echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.2 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.2.list

update cache sudo apt update

and install sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

then we need to create a service file sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/mongodb.service

paste this:

[Unit]
Description=High-performance, schema-free document-oriented >database
After=network.target

[Service]
User=mongodb
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod --quiet --config /etc/mongod.conf

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

and save and exit.

Then start the service sudo systemctl start mongodb

quick check sudo systemctl status mongodb

and if you want to keep it up on startup sudo systemctl enable mongodb