Chat application based on MERN(Mongo, Express, React, Node) stack, I chose this stack because it allows us to write Javascript code on the backend and frontend and also I like writing code for the client with React.
Is a very basic chat application, my intention here is to create an http server without the need to follow Restful constraints or anything, it helped me to understand nodejs and express features and more important to have fun. Also I tried to keep the client application simple, so it doesn't use any CSS-in-JS library and as I don't have plans to scale this application or use it in the real world I did't write tests.(You should write them)
It is deployed on heroku you can take a look at this link
1- Create mongo database: I used the mongodb altas platform for creating and managing one.Later you will need to create a user/password in order to connect the server with the DB.
2- Create .env in the root path / file and your variables
DB_NAME=core-xyz.gcp.mongodb.net
DB_USER=db_user_value
DB_PASSWORD=db_password_value
2- Install node packages and then run
npm install
npm run dev:server
1- Move to client project cd ./client and then create a .env file like the following
DEV_API="http://localhost:8000"
PROD_API="https://esquinazi-nodejs-react-chat.herokuapp.com"
2- Install dependencies and run de project.
npm install
npm start
Based and inspired on a nodejs platzi course.