Backend - Telegram

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Built With
• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Documentation
• Link
• Author

Introduction

The Telegram app is a chat application that allows users to send messages to other users in realtime. This application was built for a week with the main tools namely express, mysql, react, and socket.io.

Features

• Realtime chatting using socket.io

• Realtime online/offline status using socket.io

• Realtime notification using socket.io

• Realtime deleting message using socket.io

• JWT authentication

• Nodemailer for email verification

• Upload image using multer

• Form validation using joi

• CRUD for all tables required in the application

Built With

• ExpressJs
• MySQL
• JWT
• Socket.io
• Nodemailer
• Moment
• Joi
• Bcrypt
• Multer
• Morgan
• Cors
• Dotenv
• Ip

Prerequisites

• NodeJs
• MySQL

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/chaerulmarwan20/telegram-app-backend.git
cd telegram-app-backend

2. Install package

npm install

3. Create a new database with a name telegram-app and import telegram-app.sql from this repository

4. Create .env file

# Host & Port
HOST=
PORT=
PORT_FRONTEND=

# Database
DB_HOST=
DB_USER=
DB_PASS=
DB_NAME=telegram-app

# Secret Key
SECRET_KEY=

# Email
EMAIL_USER=
EMAIL_PASS=

5. Run application

npm run dev

Or

npm start

Documentation

Link

• ✅ Frontend Telegram
• 🚀 Publication

Author

• Chaerul Marwan