A simple yet modern real-time LAN chat app with a Flask backend and web frontend using Socket.IO.
Chat from your browser — no account, no cloud, just LAN.

• ✨ Features
• 🚀 Getting Started
• 📦 Recent Improvements
• 🛠 Tech Stack
• 📝 Notes
• 🖥 Screenshots
• 📄 License

• ⚡ Real-time chat with multiple users
• 🙋 Online user list
• ⌨️ Typing indicators (user is typing...)
• 💬 Commands like !ping (latency), !time (local time)
• 🤖 Simple bot support
• 🎨 Tailwind CSS styled UI
• 🌈 Custom usernames & colors via URL params
• 🔔 Browser notifications
• 😃 Emoji picker with wide emoji support
• 🧑‍🎨 Dynamic avatars via external API
• 🧠 Backend: Flask + Flask-SocketIO

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/McDjXdLol/WebChat.git
cd WebChat

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run the server
python app.py

Now open your browser at http://localhost:5000 and enjoy chatting 🎉

• 📂 Code refactor: Modular structure via Flask Blueprints (routes/, sockets/, models/)
• 📡 New API endpoints: /api/about, /api/stats/, /api/bot_commands
• 🎨 Frontend polish: Avatar syncing, sidebar info, UX tweaks
• 🔔 Notifications: Browser alerts for new messages
• 😄 Emoji support: Custom emoji picker popup
• 🤖 Bot upgrades: Improved !ping, !time, !img handling
• 🗂 Better structure: Clean folder separation for routes, sockets, templates, etc.

• 🧠 The bot responds to !ping, !time, !info, !img, etc.
• 🎨 Customize username & color via URL: ?user=Mc&color=cyan
• 💬 Typing indicators keep everyone in sync
• 🔄 Messages are updated live via WebSockets

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Happy chatting! 🚀

Made with ❤️ and a bit of caffeine ☕