A Chat Application using Unix network sockets featuring user authentication, multiple chatrooms and private messaging & terminal based user interface (inspired by IRC).

• user authentication - register, login
• makes uses of a persistent object-based database to store user data
• join multiple chatrooms and get messages from each
• get list of chatrooms, create own chatroom
• get list of people in a chatroom
• private messaging
• access from multiple computers in a network (not just a localhost app!)
• terminal based user interface (with colors ❤️ and altscreen)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghpnpZ5GKbk

• Shikha Chauhan - @ShikhaChauhan14
• Sudhanshu Vishnoi - @sidvishnoi

cd cpp
make # requires make and g++ with C++14 support installed

./server
# or ./server PORT BACKLOG
# like: ./server 4000

Defaults:

• PORT: 8000
• BACKLOG: 5

./client
# or ./client HOST PORT

Defaults:

• HOST: 127.0.0.1
• PORT: 8000

You can get the HOST for your server through ifconfig command.