whisper.web

A Full-stack Social Media website made using MERN stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS & NodeJS) and chatengine.io/socket.io. It is platform that is like your typical social media website post, with friends, like, comment, & chatting features and the overall theme of the social media platform is that it prompts free speech and has no restrictions for your post.

Features list:

• Login/Register
• Homepage (lets you post and create posts)
• Create Post
• Comment
• Like
• Profile Page
• Make Friends
• Chat Room
• Dark Mode

How to run

1. Unzip the file
2. Open up the command prompt and type: cd Website cd client npm install after it is done cd.. cd server npm install
3. Create a .env file inside the ./server folder and put:

   MONGO_URL = "?"
   JWT_SECRET = '?'
   CHAT_ENGINE_PRIVATE_KEY = "?"
   CHAT_ENGINE_PROJECT_ID= "?"
   PORT = 3001
   

   replace the ? with your credentials.
4. Open up the project and you have to find chatPage.jsx file inside the client folder (location would be ./client/src/scenes/ChatPage/chatPage.jsx ) and then change line 43: "chatengineprojectapi" with your api for the chatengine.io.
5. Finally, just run the client. npm start