Natural Language API Chat Application

A real-time chat application that leverages Google Cloud Natural Language API to provide intelligent message analysis, including sentiment detection and entity recognition in conversations.

Features

• Real-time messaging
• Sentiment analysis of messages
• Entity detection in conversations
• Message history
• User presence indicators
• Emoji support

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v14 or higher)
• npm (v6 or higher)
• Google Cloud Platform account
• Google Cloud Natural Language API enabled

Setup Instructions

1. Clone the Repository

Setup

1. Clone the repository
2. Install dependencies: npm install
3. Set up Google Cloud credentials
4. Create .env file with your Google credentials path
5. Run the server: npm start

Environment Variables

• GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=path/to/your/credentials.json

Technologies

• Node.js
• Express
• Google Cloud Natural Language API
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript