aChat: Anonymous Chat

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy -the shining ( 1980 )

aChat: A real-time chat application, based on WebSockets, used for meeting up with some random strangers and keeping your identity anonymous.

Description

So this chat application which serves from 00:00 to 01:00 only :P , creates an interface of chat between pairs of anonymous users among all the users online.

Features

• Real-time interaction with WebSockets
• Video and Audio calls using WebRTC

Things to learn

• How to create a basic node chat application, for say 200 users.
• Solving complexities like reconnection after server restart.
• Scaling the server with a cluster of node applications, using docker, and still maintaining an internode connection between all sockets/users.
• Large scaling for a million users and load testing.

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Proposed Tech. Stack

• MERN MongoDB, ExpressJS, NodeJS, ReactJS
• socket.io
• docker

Team

Name	Year	Department
Kunal Tawatia	Sophomore	Computer Science and Engineering
Rohan Singh	Freshman	Electrical Engineering
Tarun Tomar	Freshman	Computer Science and Engineering

Steps to join

1. Star this repo.
2. Push a PR in this README, adding your details in the above table.