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Tutorial: How to build your own peer-to-peer chat app (like Couple)

• kunle 14y ago
  Hey everyone - Ayo from Hipmob here. We published Couple a few days ago and thought it would be helpful to show how we put it together. We've also published the source on github (https://github.com/Hipmob https://github.com/Hipmob) so you can take a look at the server & client side bits if you want. Would love feedback at ayo@hipmob.com
• AYBABTME 14y ago
  So my understanding is that this is not really peer-to-peer in the sense that connections are made with a server in the middle of two clients. Unless I got something wrong, connections are not handled stirctly from a client to another. Or am I completely lost?
  • kunle 14y ago
    You're not completely lost at all - your description is correct. All connections are made with a server in the middle.
    • pionar 14y ago
      Then it's not peer-to-peer.
• isnotchicago 14y ago
  Just an FYI, but the website is unusable on mobile (Android ICS). The sidebar navigation completely overlaps the text when zoomed in.
  • jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
    You can actually test this kind of bug in Chrome; just make the width of the window little and then scroll horizontally. The "position:fixed" breaks many things on mobile, is always better to avoid it or at least change it when the user is from a smartphone.
  • kunle 14y ago
    Thanks for flagging this for us. Can't replicate the error at the moment, but will take jQueryIsAwesome's advice. Meantime, if you get a sec please send a screenshot?
• pbharrin 14y ago
  I am so offended!! Why is this only limited to any two people? What about interspecies relationships?
  • kunle 14y ago
    Hah! No users have asked for this yet, but if you can think of features you'd like that would make this super easy, we'll build em. :)