The Messenger Application

Capstone I focused on developing the familiarity with the software development lifecycle. In order to apply our learned skills, we spent the latter half of the semester building a messenger application from the ground up. This app aims to allow people to connect and message each other in a meaningful way.

We built a multi-page messenger application using the MESN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, Socjet.io, NodeJS) web development framework.

View our project

Use our messenger application!

View our Github repository. (currently private)

Sprint 1

Sprint 1 features:

• A user can register a new account
• A user can login with their credentials
• A user can logout
• A user can edit their profile information
• A user can search for other users in the database
• Add bootstrap and styling to our website

Beginning of Sprint 1
Basic HTML layout.

End of Sprint 1
Fully functional and styled with Bootstrap and CSS.

Sprint 2

Sprint 2 Features:

• Global messaging
• Group messaging
• Private (direct) messaging
• A user can add friends
• A user can rename and leave chats
• Email verification
• Password reset/Username request

Beginning of Sprint 2
A user could log into the site, but had no messaging capabilities. Basic landing page.

End of Sprint 2
Upon login, a user is able to globally message or message friends!