Woof Woof is a clone of Slack, a popular chat application that allows people to post messages to public channels or send private Direct Messages.

• Technologies
• Features
• Installation
• Future Improvements

Check out the project wiki to read about MVP-Feature-List, Database Schema, API Documentation, Frontend Routes, and the User Story.

• React/Redux
• Python
• Flask
• SQLAlchemy
• PostgresQL
• WebSockets

• Users can sign up, and log in

• Users can see all channels to which he/she belongs
• Users can leave a channel
• Users can create a channel

• Users can see all conversations on the side bar
• Users can send and receive messages from other users.
• Users with whom you communicate will have green status if they are online.

• Users can search all channels, including channels that user does not belongs to
• Users can search all other users

• User can see red notifications with the number of unread messages on the sidebar to the right of the dm or channel.

• Live chat is implemented by using Socket.io library. It enables real-time, bidirectional and event-based communication.
• It works in both channels and DMs

This project can be run by following these steps:

• Clone the repo into your desired folder.
• Run pipenv install from the root project directory.
• Run npm install from the react-app directory
• Create a .env file in the root directory (use .env.example).
• Run pipenv shell command
• Run flask run command from the root directory and npm start from the react-app directory

• Ability to create private channels
• Implement event-based fetching on scrolled
• Bookmark the messages
• live typing ... notification

For additional information, checkout our Wiki page.

Developed By: Brent Arimoto, Nurs Asanov, Alex Clough, Zane Preudhomme