spurton

Great tutorial. Good overall guide vs. many I have read that go over most of the basic Angular starter points.

I have a question about the syntax you are using for factories and services. I notice you use Pascal Case for your objects vs. Camel Case as in the AngularJS docs... I like to use best practices and have seen both so I am not sure which is kosher in the community. Is that something that is changing?

I noticed you define it as a function first then reference it in the constructor. I understand what you are doing but again the examples I have seen do it differently so I am confused as to which way to do it and the "why".

I helped build Chat Simply: https://www.chatsimply.com it is XMPP backed, has Windows and Mac OS client as well as iOS. It is also web-based so you can use it in your browser if you would like. It is free but has some "Pro" features for a reasonable yearly fee.

BTW we officially launched it today, so this is good timing :)

It's XMPP based. It has some Node.js hooks for tying into XMPP. It uses Elastic Search too.