Socket messenger

A simple application for transferring text data from one client to all clients connected to the server.

The server side of this app is implemented using Python’s socket library, and data is transmitted via the TCP protocol. On the client side, data is also sent to the server using the socket library.

The GUI is built with Flask, and it runs in the system’s web browser.

Sections

Requirements

run server

GUI client

CLI client

Requirements

Flask
dotenv

To run this program, you need to create a .env file in the following format and place it in the program's directory

HOST = <HOST NAME>      # ex: '127.0.0.1'
PORT = <PORT NUMBER>    # ex: 54321

Run server

for start server, first of all you should create a .env file on root directory of the app and set the listen ip and port:

HOST = <HOST NAME>      # ex: '127.0.0.1'
PORT = <PORT NUMBER>    # ex: 54321

By default, the server's IP and port are set to 127.0.0.1 and 65432.

Then start server:

python server.py

GUI client

For start UI client first of all you should set the Flask port and host in .env file:

FLASK_HOST = "<HOST NAME>"
FLASK_PORT = "<PORT NUMBER>"

By default, the Flask IP and port are set to 127.0.0.1 and 5001.

Then run the GUI_client.py file:

python GUI_client.py

Then this file give you a url, paste it to browsers to access the GUI

CLI client

After seting port and ip in .env file run the app:

python CLI_client.py