Web Chat-Hub Application built on Flask

An web-based chat application built with Flask, enabling users to exchange text messages anonymously within a "chat room".

Users can create new rooms or join existing ones to communicate with others in the same room.

Check out the project Live : Hosted on Render

https://flask-chathub.onrender.com/

Setup

Recommended Python 3.6 or above.

• Set up python virtual environment:

python3 -m venv .venv

• Activate the virtual environment:

source .venv/bin/activate

• Installing dependencies:

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt 

Execution

With the virtual environment activated, run the following commands.

• To run locally:

flask run

• To run on the network:

flask run --host "0.0.0.0"

Features

• Completely anonymous
• Real-time messaging
• Auto-Generated Room IDs
• Dynamic room creation and deletion without server restart
• Temporary rooms: Inactive/Vacant rooms are periodically deleted
• Users list broadcast
• Responsive design for easy viewing on all devices

Screens

Resources

• https://docs.python.org/3/library/hashlib.html
• https://flask-socketio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• https://socket.io/docs/v4/client-installation/
• socketio/socket.io-client#1451

// TO-DO:

• Standardize front-end
• Implement Room Creation/Joining
• Implement WebSocket for individual Rooms
• Connected users list
• Session based auth (probably)
• Message history (probably)
• Deploy if free