Purpose

Chat with translation

Usage

To run (in development): npm install
gulp

Gulp will automatically open a web browser or to try, visit: localhost:8000/chat.html

You can also run node server.js.

In order to use translation with Microsoft Translator you need to register with Microsoft and get your CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET. Set these as environment variables before running the server.

Components

Front-end

Jquery, and it's pretty darn messy at that ;-/ CSS was borrowed from a Firebase sample project: https://github.com/firebase/examples under MIT license.

Data

Firebase

Server

node / connect

Authentication

Authentication is provided by Google's OAuth.

Translation

Translation is provided by the Microsoft Bing Translator API.