Chat App

This is a chat app created using Socket.io, Nodejs, Expressjs and React

Installation

Backend

cd backend
npm install

npm start

Frontend

cd frontend
npm install

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

Development setup

Setting up is straight forward:

• Open the front and backend on two different terminals.
• Install the dependencies.
• Update the .env file with your database credentials
• Run using the respective commands (npm start in both the cases).

You require postgresql to run this project. So please either have one running on you local machine or a server instance.

Please make sure that the node version that you're are using is >= 12.8

Meta

Praveen Kumar Palai

Twitter – @PraveenPalai

Email – [email protected]

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

https://github.com/PraveenKumarPalai/chat-app.git

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/PraveenKumarPalai/chat-app/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
5. Create a new Pull Request