LiveChat

Livechat is cross-platform web application where users can authenticate and chat instantly.

Usage

Click here to visit the web-app

Click here to download the apk file

Description

Livechat is a full-stack application that implement a cross-platform web application using Flutter UI toolkit and a Python server for authentication and instant messaging.

Built with

• Flutter UI Toolkit
• Flask python microframework
• JsonWebTokens for authentication during each requets
• SocketIO for instant messaging
• PostgreSQL DB
• Firebase Storage (used for users profile icons)
• Heroku (used to host the server)

Frontend

The application is developed using Flutter UI framework. From one codebase our app is then built for IOS/ ANDROID / WEB

SETUP

• Go to Frontend/LiveChatFrontend/:

• In "LiveChatFrontend/lib/constants.dart" are store the URLs for the python server, leave it default if you want to connect to the official server

$ flutter create .
$ flutter run 

Backend

All users images are store on Firebase Storage

You need to have an Heroku account to host the server, but you can also run it locally.

SETUP

• Go to BACKEND/
• Create a new file '.env':

   DATABASE_URL=YOUR_POSTGRESQL_DB_URL
   SECRET_KEY=this_must_be_secret
   DEBUG=True
  

• Create a new virtual environment and install all dependencies

   $ python -m venv venv
   $ source venv/bin/activate
   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create a new file 'app/helpers/firebase_config.py' and add your firebase project credentials:

  firebaseConfig = {
  	"apiKey": "",
  	"authDomain": "",
  	"databaseURL": "",
  	"projectId": "",
  	"storageBucket": "",
  	"messagingSenderId": "",
  	"appId": "",
  	"measurementId": ""
  }

• Run the server

   $ python wsgi.py