Made with the magic of Node.js and sockets.io, transnoder is a command line interface tool which enables you to send any kind of file directly from cli.

• You can send any file, without going anywhere, right from your fav terminal
• Do not store your files like others, it just redirects it to it's destination
• Data is sent using base64 encoding
• Saves your time

The Project is created with:

• Node.js
• Sockets.io
• Express

• NOTE - to run on localhost, go to client/client.js and change the value of url to http://localhost:<port_number>

• To run this project, Nodejs should be installed on your system, if not you can download it from here

Server

• After cloning, go to server and client directory, and hit

npm install

• Go to server directory and type

npm run start

This will start the server, and this server will be the mediator between both our clients, i.e sender and receiver

Client

• Client as receiver, should be run first.
• Go to Client directory and hit

node client.js <user_name>

• user_name: it is alphanumeric string, must be given by user, to make unique user connection.

• Client as receiver, should be run after receiver script, when terminal is saying this:

Ready to receive data...

• Go to Client directory and hit, in a different terminal

node client.js <user_name> <file_name>

where,

• user_name: it is an alphanumeric string with max length of 10 characters, must be given by user, to make unique user connection.

• file_name: it is the desired file that is supposed to be send by the sender, should be in the directory of this current file. That means you need to move your target file here, to send before launching the script.

• On successfull completion, you will see the new file created in the current working directory.

• It supports sending any kind of file, whether audio, video, text, any file.
• Messaging can also be implemented with this, and is currently in development.
• The data is sent in chunks, in base64 encoded string, which can also be encypted and then send, by using any cipher algo of your choice.

• Currently, it sends files globally, i.e all the receivers who are connected with the sender at a particular instance, are sent the file.
• It do not checks whether, the receiver is present or not, it just sends the file, but receiver should be there in order to receive the file.
• We can also check for a particular file that, does it exists or not.

MIT License