This is a chat application, implemented using Flask-SocketIO with both the database (PostgreSQL) and the app deployed in Heroku. It also has user registration and authentication functionalities.
- app.py: This is the main app file and contains both the registration/login page logic and the Flask-SocketIO backend for the app.
- models.py: Contains Flask-SQLAlchemy models used for user registration and login in application.py
- wtform_fields.py: Contains the classes for WTForms/Flask-WTF and the custom validators for the fields
- Procfile: file required for Heroku
- requirements.txt: list of Python packages installed (also required for Heroku)
- templates/: folder with all HTML files
- static/: for with all JS scripts and CSS files
Use the link to the production server directly.
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Modify application.py to replace the secret key (i.e. os.environ.get('SECRET')) with a secret key of your choice and the database link (i.e. os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL')) with the link to your own database.
The two lines to be edited in application.py are shown below:
app.secret_key = os.environ.get('SECRET')
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL')- Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/skamranahmed/socketio-chat-app.git
cd socketio-chat-app
python3 app.py
App will be live on http://127.0.0.1:5000/
