Chat App in CLI

This project is a fast and reliable instant messaging that allow multiple clients to communicate, share files or be part of chat rooms...

Example of a communication between two clients

Features

• Choose a pseudonym
• Send a global message to all clients
• Send a private message to a specific user
• Upload a file to the server
• Download a file from the server
• Join / Quit a chat room
• Create / Delete a chat room
• Censorship of bad words

Personalisation

You can update the list of bad words in the file badWords.txt The file is located at ./assets/badWords.txt.

Technical informations

• Server side the clients are store with a Doubly Circular Linked Lists with head of list
• RW lock for concurent access in read and exclusive access in write
• Multi-threading to manage multiple clients, handle file transfer...

Installation and Usage

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/bastian-albaut/chat-app-cli.git

2. Enter the following command on root of the project:

./run.sh