New feature ideas
Now that we have our People list in place and our messages are only getting sent to the users in the same chatroom, we are done. But that doesn't mean you have to stop developing the chat app, students always like to add on new features.
I'd like to give you a few ideas as to what you can build right now. You might get stuck while adding these features. It might be a real pain in the neck and it might take forever, but I promise you're going to learn so much along the way when you're doing something on your own. Now you have all the skills to do these features so let's just go down the list really quick.
- One awesome idea would be to make chatrooms case-insensitive. Currently, if I go to
LOTr
with a lowercaser
, I'm not actually in the same chatroom as my friend who's inLOTR
uppercaseR
. It would be nice if regardless of case we were all in the same room. - Next up, I'd like to make usernames unique. Currently, I can copy the URL and paste it in a new tab, and now I have two...