What is this project about?

A simple web-based chat application where users can create or join public and private chat rooms to communicate in real-time.

Features

• User authentication (Sign up / Log in)
• Browse and join all available chat rooms
• Create new chat rooms (public or password-protected private rooms)
• Real-time messaging in chat rooms

Setting up

1. Requirements

• Node.js
• npm (included with Node.js)
• XAMPP + phpMyAdmin (or any MySQL server)

2. Database Setup

1. Open phpMyAdmin
2. Create a new database called chathub
3. Open the schema.sql file included in this repository
4. Run the SQL queries to create the necessary tables

3. Terminal Setup

In the terminal, inside the project folder, run the following commands:

node server.js