sce-chat-server

Simple websocket-based chat.

DEMO: Client heroku deploy

DEMO: Server heroku deploy

Client repository (REACT)

Features:

• ✅ Sessions (JWT token)
• ✅ Sending/Receiving messages
• ✅ Restoring old messages
• ✅ Notifications:
  • about user disconnection
  • 'delivered/read' message status
  • about new user joining the chat
  • etc
• ✅ No users with the same username online
• ❌ Authentication with passwords =) it's for demo purpose

Known issues:

Security

• ✅ Handling and tracking unexpected activity:
  • unexpected message events
  • unexpected message schemas
• ❌ CORS restrictions (to make possible to connect from everywhere and test)
• ❌ Rate limitation (per session, per IP, etc)
  • https://github.com/animir/node-rate-limiter-flexible
• ❌ Payload size restrictions
• ❌ Authentication before WS connection is established (X-Auth-Token)

...

• ❌ SSL

Socket API

Supported Events

• Event Names
• Messages Schema