Project Highlight

Features

• Muti-user chatroom.
• User credentials: ** Create chatroom ** Chatroom joinability
• Full-text search, by type (like flowdock)
• Multiple type entries (chat message, inbound email, tweet, file, link ). Extensible entry types (poll, task, github event ...), some entries may have custom UI.
• Authenticable with twitter or gmail account
• History marker : see what happened since last join.
• 1-to-1 private message

UI

• Use angular for data displaying and interface behaviour.
• Use bootstrap for UI design ** wrapboostrap for paid but better design ** bootswatch for free, lighter BS improvement.

Storage

• User information (UUID + last timestamp), abilities (role per room)
• Entries
• Files

Database

• couchDB (cloudant ?) can provide a JSON based storage for messaging data (for example)
• PostgreSQL can be used for all relational needs

Messaging

Case 1

Webapp subscribes to the channels

Case 2

Webapp forwards users requests to messaging service.