chatroom-with-flask's Introduction

Introduction

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.

Demo

RChat - Chat rooms are back in style!

Files in the program

application.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
create.py : optional file only required if repo is to be cloned. See 'Usage' section below.
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

Run app -

Link - http://rchat-app.herokuapp.com/

Clone/Modify app

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')

Edit create.py to once again replace os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL') with the link to your database.
Run create.py from the terminal to create the table to hold user credentials.