Welcome to this course where will be building a real-time chat application that you can use to communicate with your friends and family using node ,express ,socketio and mongodb

Nodes is a platform built on the Chrome JavaScript  run time that can help you build fast, Scalable network applications. Nodes uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient—perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Socket.IO is a web library that enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.

Express.js is a Node.js framework used in building nodejs applications

MongoDB—an open-source, document database—makes it easy to bring up an application stack and start coding.

Topics include:

• Installing Nodejs
• Installing Express
• Installing Mongoose
• Installing socketio
• Setting up socketio
• Serving static content with Express
• Adding bootstrap and jQuery
• Creating a get messages service
• Creating a post services message
• Emitting messages to clients
• Setting up MongoDB using mLab
• Connecting your app to mLab
• Saving data to mongoDB
• Initialising a git repository
• Creating a hosting app on heroku
• Tracking your app with git
• Creating a model for mongoDB
• Connecting with mongoose
• Deploying application into Heroku cloud platform
• Checking the logs for your app on Heroku platform