UNDER DEVELOPMENT

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Database Scheme: https://www.dbdesigner.net/designer/schema/172591

chat-with-people-backend

Backend codes for the project ChatWithPeople web application. This project was part of my studies about JWT and GraphQL.

Chat with people is a social networking application.

What it does

• It's a simple chat application that uses JWT and GraphQL.
• Account registration.
• Email verification (I used mailtrap)
• Sign in.
• Search for users (name, email, or username).
• Initiate chat with other users. You can even chat yourself (if it makes you happy).
• Create group chats and invite other users.

Technologies used

• WorkBox
• ExpressJS
• React-Dom
• React-Native
• React-Redux
• React-Router
• Redux-Saga
• Axios
• Socket.io
• GraphQL
• JWT
• Sequelize
• SASS
• Smart-Input-Validator
• Redux-Abstract

Dev

• Babel
• Nodemon
• Webpack
• Autoprefixer
• ESLint

Run it

1. Set up the backend and web interface

git clone git@github.com:aprilmintacpineda/chat-with-people-backend.git
cd chat-with-people-backend

1.1 Install all dependencies

npm i

1.2 Set up configuration files

npm run config:init

1.3 Configure database

Edit src/config/sequelize.json. It should look something like this:

{
  "development": {
    "username": "root",
    "password": null,
    "database": "chat_with_people",
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "dialect": "mysql"
  },
  // ......

After you have set that up, you can create the database and run the migration by running npm run db:install. You can also re-install it from (if for some reason you want that) by running npm run db:reinstall.

Note

• If you are going to run production mode, you need to edit the production key as well.

1.4 Configure email

Edit src/config/nodemailer.js. I use mailtrap to test my emails. It would look something like this:

{
  host: 'smtp.mailtrap.io',
  port: 2525,
  secure: false, // true for 465, false for other ports
  auth: {
    user: 'your-username',
    pass: 'your-password'
  }
}

For more details, please checkout nodemailer's documentation.

1.5 Run it

Dev

npm run webpack
npm run start

Production

This command will both build the code and create a production server using the build codes.

npm run start:production

Now you can access the web interface via localhost:3000.

NPM Scripting

• npm run eslint should run eslint against resources/js and src/ folders.
• npm run build should use babel to build all files in src/ folder.

Clean up

Once you're done looking at it, and you've decided to delete the whole thing.

npm run db:uninstall
cd ..
rm -rf chat-with-people-backend
rm -rf chat-with-people-mobile

That should:

• Delete the database.
• Delete the backend and the web interface source code.
• Delete the mobile source code.

License

MIT

Created with <3 by April Mintac Pineda.

Credits to the open source projects that I used for this project.