This project demonstrates how to use Google Dartlang on both client and server to build a realtime websocket chat application.
To run this project you need the Dart SDK and best but not required either WebStorm or PHPStom with the Dart plugin installed.
First thing needed is to download all the Dart libraries dependencies. We will use Pub for this:
$ pub get
Resolving dependencies...
Once all the dependencies are installed within the project root, from your terminal run:
$ pub serve
Loading source assets...
Loading dart_to_js_script_rewriter transformers...
Serving chat web on http://localhost:8080
Build completed successfully
This will serve the frontend application. To run the server, use this command:
$ dart bin/chat_server.dart
FINE: 2016-04-04 00:02:29.211357: Server bind to ws://0.0.0.0:4040
You can now visit http://localhost:8080 using Dartium (faster, won't need Javascript compilation) or either Chrome (will be slower, Dart code will be compiled on the fly in Javascript).
Default ports for web and server are respectively 8080 and 4040.
- unit tests
- a bit of frontend sugar