Dynamic Webpage (ChatApp)

This project contains the source code the virtual CoderDojo will use in the workshop on May 15th.

Prerequisites

The following software is required to install and use the workshop project.

• a text editor (e.g. Notepad++, Visual Studio Code)
• Node.js
• Git

Installation

This section describes how to install the workshop project.

1. create a folder on your hard disk and open a command line box
2. execute git clone https://github.com/coderdojo-neusiedl/dynamic-webpage.git
3. execute cd dynamic-webpage
4. close the command line box
5. start dynamic-webpage/openCliHere.bat (info: a command line box will inform you that the home folder of grunt does not exist. That's ok ... just press any key to continue)
6. execute git checkout -b workshop-20200515 remotes/origin/workshop-20200515
7. execute npm install

Starting the webserver

Start dynamic-webpage/startWebserver.bat. After a few seconds you should see a message like listening at http://:::8080 telling you that the server is ready.

Starting the chatApp

Open a browser (e.g. Firefox) and enter the address http://localhost:8080/.