myOwnChatApp

Chat App

An application that allows users to register and communicate with each other by sending messages and joining/deleting channels

Project Screen Shots

Initial

Attempting Empty Username

Username Subbarao

Creating a New Channel

Entering a Message

Overall Conversation Between Multiple People

Reflection

This was a month long project built during the end of my second year fall semester and winter break. My goals for the project were to apply the programmable chat aspect of Twilio to create a functioning chat app.

This project was particularly challenging in a few aspects. Being able to add the functionality of deleting previously created channels was difficult. Another challenge was adding in the actual web capabilities. Learning how to integrate html and css with twilio (e.g. taking messages the user wants to send and actually displaying them using html and css) was something completely foreign to me. In addition, I had to learn how to use bootstrap in order to allow for different window resizing.

My favorite part about this project was integrating a variety of tools to produce the final outcome. Technologies I implemented included Twilio, Express.js, HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap. The next step I would implement would be adding calling features, as well as stronger user authentication features with password capabilities.