Chat room.

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So, we figured creating our own chatroom could be fun.

It's something we can all work together on.

We don't plan on moving there but the project itself could be interesting for the whole room to collaborate work on.

What we need to discuss now:

• What technologies we want to use (Node/Express seems natural for serverside. What about clientside?)
• What features to we want? Do we just want to start with a clone of the SO chat?

Requirements

• Adding features should be easy
• Responsive and fast
• Works on IE10+, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera
• Mobile interface that actually works

Current stack proposal

• AngularJS as clientside MVW, libraries (like jQuery) accepted gladly on a need to basis.
• NodeJS/ExpressJS/SQL for server side.

Considering the "We don't plan on moving there" part, maybe it should be built on top of the SO chat. Then anyone could use all the new chat features/UI without needing to leave the SO chat.

I have no clue how doable that is with the SO API though.

Or maybe that's already the plan?

This is what I recommend

Server:
Mongo (possibly Mongoose)
Express
Socket.io
Client:
Javascript
socket.io
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Well, it looks like I'm majorly outvoted, but I happen to like knockout as an alternative to angular.

Firebase also looks like an interesting option, though I admit I haven't actually used it.

put all this on s3 + heroku ... infinite scalability :D

@shea i once wrote a lib to convert a gif to a sprite sheet ( in C ) I think i should do that :P ... making the gif pausable and playable with canvas or css3 powered animations !