Flask Chat

A simple chat in flask. More a message board that looks like in the 80s than a full-featured chat with videos and unicorn.

Information about how to deploy using Docker on a raspberry pi on this blog post.

Why?

I wanted to have a simple chat with my friends and not use snapshot, hangouts or any other popular solutions that requires to be logged on a system you do not control.

What?

This is a simple application written in Python/Flask. It handles a single chat window. Users have to authenticate.

Requirements

• Single chat window
• Several users
• Admin functions to add/change users
• No plain password stored

and for later ...

This could be integrated as well

• GIFs search
• Support to check HTML safety

How to use it?

git clone https://github.com/juli1/flask-chat.git
cd flask-chat
# Replace the following line with virtualenv if necessary
python3.X -m venv venv # Replace X with your version of python
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
./db_create.py
./run-debug.py

And then, open your browser to http://127.0.0.1:5000/

Start with the user admin, password admin.

How to run tests?

python -m unittest discover tests

Dockerization

The docker image is available on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/juli1/flask-chat/

Build the docker image

docker build -t flask-chat:latest .

Run the docker image

docker run -d -p 10000:5050 flask-chat

And then, open your browser to http://127.0.0.1:10000/

Resources

• The Flask Website
• Dockerfile reference
• Docker container for Flask
• The Amazing Flask Tutorial