WebSocketChat

This project is a typical chat web-application which uses WebSockets to communicate between the frontend (using Angular 4) and the backend (using .NET Core).

Requirements

• Standalone .NET Core SDK or alternatively Visual Studio 2017.
• node package manager (NPM), part of node.js.
• Angular CLI -> install with npm install -g @angular/cli

Backend Usage

1. Navigate to .NET Core backend project in ./WebSocketChat.Server/WebSocketChatServer.
2. Restore packages with dotnet restore and start local server with dotnet run.

or..

1. Open server solution in VS2017, wait till the NuGet packages are restored and start the IIS-Express server with F5.

Frontend Usage

1. Navigate to ./WebSocketChat.Frontend
2. Install required node modules with npm install
3. Configure URL to connect to your running backend server in ./WebSocketChat.Frontend/src/environments/environment.prod.ts -> property websocketBaseUrl (you can see the url of your server in the command-line if you've started it with dotnet run). The suffix /chat shouldn't be changed.
4. Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/ to open the application. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.