Flask Chatting App

A fully functional Chatting app made with flask-socketIO.

Live - https://charchit-chatapp.herokuapp.com/

Steps to use app locally

Prerequisites

• Python 3 on linux and windows (mac not tested)
• Flask (virtual environment or globally)
• Install all the requirements using pip install -r requirements.txt
• Firebase account
• Pushy account

Run the app

1. configure the env file (explained below).

2. Comment the line SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = uri and uncomment SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = "sqlite:///test.db" in config.py

3. Comment the whole script tag in the layout.html at line 4

4. delete the migration folder and open the terminal in the root folder and run

• flask db init - initializing flask-migrate
• flask db migrate - create migration
• flask db upgrade - make the database
• python run.py - run the app
• Visit this link to see the website

Make .env file

DATABASE_URL= "heroku database url" # leave this if not using heroku
FIREBASE_USERNAME="test1@gmail.com" 
FIREBASE_PASSWORD="1234567" 
EMAIL_PASSWORD="Email_password" 
EMAIL_USERNAME="Email" 
SECRET_KEY="e72f434e77d246b6a55b2c9a8c2077" 
# You can get all these from firebase console
API_KEY="Firebase_api_key" 
AUTH_DOMAIN="firebase_auth_domain" 
PROJECT_ID="firebase_project_id" 
STORAGE_BUCKET="firebase_bucket_link" 
MESSAGE_SENDER_ID="612879935941" 
APP_ID="firebase_app_id" 
MEASUREMENT_ID="Ms_id"

Technologies used in the app

• python3
  • flask as backend
  • flask-sqlalchemy as orm
  • flask-socketIO
  • pyrebase4 for connecting to fireabase to save user image
  • other third party modules like wtforms, flask-Migrate, flask_login
• Used Sqlite (for development) and postgresql (for production)
• HTML, CSS, JS, JQUERY, bootstrap
• PushySdk for push notification

Features

• Full authentication system
  • Email verification through otp
  • Forgot password and reset email
• Add profile pic
• fully responsive
• Messages saved in the database
• Delete chat for everyone
• Delete chat for me
• block user
• User Status - (like idle, online, offline, typing)
• Shows number of unseen message on the users page
• Notification tune on recieving message
• Push Notification facility for one device

Note - The app is still under development. So you may see some bugs. Please contact me when you come across any.

Contributing

Contributions are highly appreciated. If you want to contribute first fork the repo. And then make your changes. Now make a pull request stating the changes you made. I will review it and if it looks good to I will accept it and merge.

Contacting

You can contact charchit#8198 on discord or email at charchit.dahiya@gmail.com or even chat with me on the same app.