A super simple location based chat
MapChat Application
MapChat: A super simple location based chat in about 400 lines of code
Features:
- Super simple location based chat.
- No registration or message history.
- Built-in Google Translate widget.
- Create a private chat map by adding #name to the url.
This demo app is hosted on GitHub pages and uses a Vert.x SockJS server deployed on a single core Azure machine. This tiny lightweight Vert.x server served hundreds of concurrent users and could be scaled horizontally with very minimal effort. The whole app runs on a 0$ budget, with the server running on the free tier azure instance and the static content being hosted and served from GitHub Pages.
Read more
Features:
- Super simple location based chat.
- No registration or message history.
- Built-in Google Translate widget.
- Create a private chat map by adding #name to the url.
This demo app is hosted on GitHub pages and uses a Vert.x SockJS server deployed on a single core Azure machine. This tiny lightweight Vert.x server served hundreds of concurrent users and could be scaled horizontally with very minimal effort. The whole app runs on a 0$ budget, with the server running on the free tier azure instance and the static content being hosted and served from GitHub Pages.
Source Manifest.json
{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "MapChat", "description": "A super simple location based chat", "version": "1.0", "manifest_version": 2, "icons": { "128": "icon_128.png" }, "app": { "urls": [ "http://idoco.github.io/map-chat/" ], "launch": { "web_url": "http://idoco.github.io/map-chat/" } }}
Read more