SmoothBabble

The Project

SmoothBabble is a simple (160 lines server, 250 lines client) chat platform. It is used in the command line. It also has some basic spam protection - meaning if a message with the same content is sent multiple times it won't process them. I wrote it in node.js, and is crossplatform because of that.

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Team Comments

I chose to make this project because I thought it would be a fun challenge, and to improve my node.js knowledge - which at the time was limited

I had a number of issues, such as me not knowing how to use return in functions, but eventually I worked it all out. Another issue was that the file containing the groups got wiped, but I just replaced it and it was all okay.

If I had more time, I would definitely use electron (essentially a webpage) as opposed to the terminal.