🗯 NFTolk

This is prototype app for NFT chat app. We use it as working directory for BSC NFT & DEFI HACKATHON - RUSSIA & CIS GRANT.

Project details: https://hackerlink.io/en/Buidl/331 Hackathon details: https://hackerlink.io/en/Grant/RCIS/Round/1/detail

💡 Vision

NFTolk is simple way to communicate with NFT holders, create chat rooms for NFT fans, public & private rooms and more.

🚀 Demo

https://github.com/NFTolk/nft-tolk/deployments

Technical Details

High-level app architecture looks like this:

This is a full-stack chat application that can be up and running with just a few steps. Its frontend is built with React. The backend is built with Express.js and Node.js. Real-time message broadcasting is developed using Socket.IO. Metamask is used to provide user unique ID and to sign access key with crypto (More details about auth process can be find in this Article)

How to run dev server

Prerequisites:

• You need mongodb up and running locally. The simplest way would be to start docker mongodb image
• Create .env file based on .env-example (for localhost MONGO_DB_URI might be mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017)

To install dev dependecies run these commands within project folder:

# install the dependencies of the Node.js server
npm install

# install the dependencies of the frontend
npm run client-install

Finally, all you have to do is simply run:

npm run dev

If this command fails, try installing the package concurrently globally by running npm install -g concurrently and then running the dev command.

You can have this application up and running with just a few steps because it has both the frontend and the backend in a single repository. Follow the steps below to do so.