What is it
A fork of the node.js chat app by @orkj using socket.io, rethinkdb, passport and bcrypt on an express app.
Complete stack
Installation
git clone [email protected]:rethinkdb/rethinkdb-example-nodejs-chat.git
cd rethinkdb-example-nodejs-chat && npm install
Note: If you don't have RethinkDB installed, you can follow these instructions to get it up and running.
Running the application
Running the app is as simple as:
node app
Then open a browser: http://localhost:8000.
Note: If you want to override the default RethinkDB connection details, you can specify them as environment variables:
RDB_HOST
: the RethinkDB host (default:localhost
)RDB_PORT
: the port (default28015
)RDB_DB
: the app database (default:chat
)
If you want to enable logging for the database queries (see debug docs for more configuration options:
DEBUG=rdb:* node app
Annotated Source Code
After checking out the code, you can also read the annotated source here.
License
This demo application is licensed under the MIT license: http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php