- Make sure you fork this repository to your own Github, then clone it to your computer
- From the project root directory, run
npm install, then runnode server.js - Also make sure you have
mongodrunning in the background - Next, go to
http://localhost:3000/in your browser - Note that "logging in" will create a user if one doesn't exist
As is, any user can send any other user a message. Instead, users should only be able to send messages to their friends. The User Model already has a friends array, but it's never used. As such:
- Show a friends list on the right of the screen
- Give the ability to "add a friend"
- Clicking a friend from the list should populate the
Toinput - When a user presses "Send", first validate that they are sending the message to a friend
Given many messages, a user will have a hard time finding messages from certain friends. A user should be able to filter the messages
- Add a drop-down to the top of the page
- The drop-down should have all the user's friends
- Selecting one of the friends will only show messages from that friend
Currently anyone can login as a user given the username. Instead, a user should have to sign up and authenticate their identitiy with a password. Note that any time you save a password it should be encrypted, and when you validate the password you should decrypt it. You can use this NPM package to encrypt/decrypt your passwords
- Add a
passwordfield to theUserModel - Add an input to the sign-in section for the user's password
- When a user tries to log in with a username and password:
- Find the user in the DB based off the username
- Validate the password they used
- Add an option to "sign up":
- When a user signs up they have to use a unique username
- Make sure you are encrypting their password before you store it in the DB
- When a user presses "Send", the entire conversation disappears
- A user can send a message to a user that doesn't exist; causes a server crash
- Using
usernameinstead of mongo ID to look for users