Android chat application based on socket.io with local node.js server
1. Open cmd and go to .../socket.io-local-chat-server path.
2. Run node index.js OR nodemon indexcommand. (Note :- Make sure you have properly installed node.js in your system)
1. Download node.js from https://www.nodejs.org/en/ and install it in your system.
2. Open cmd and go to directory where you want initialize node project.
3. Initialize/Configure project using npm init command; just go through the steps and keep all default settings, as a result it will create package.json configuration file in current directory.
4. Install and save express module by running npm install express --save command; as a result it will install/create node_modules in current directory.
5. Install and save nodemon by running npm install nodemon --save-dev command in dev-dependency. (Not Mandatory)
Note :- nodemon installation is not necessary as it's used to auto-restarts the server when there is any change in main/index.js file instead of manually restart the server.
6. Create new file index.js inside current directory and voila....! We have configured our node.js project so we are good to go to build server-script and run our own node.js local server.
- You can get more details about it by watching this video series/tutorials by The Net Ninja.
- For more details about socket.io and and android-client head on to Native Socket.IO and Android page.