Web Application Development with MEAN

Chapter 4. Chat Application

In this chapter, we will build a chat application. The application that we are going to build will serve perfectly as an in-house communication tool for a company. Teams could create channels to discuss certain things related to their projects, even send auto-deleting messages with sensitive data, such as login credentials for servers and so on.

Setting up the base application

We are going to start by setting up the base application using the same boilerplate code used in the previous chapter. Follow these simple steps to achieve this:

1. Clone the project from GitHub: https://github.com/robert52/express-api-starter.
2. Rename your boilerplate project mean-blueprints-chatapp.
3. If you want, you can stop pointing to the initial Git ...