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DISCO-RD

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OVERVIEW

Disco-rd is a fullstack app which is a pixel perfect clone of Discord. Disco-rd is a chat application where users can invite friends to their servers and create a community through the use of text channels.

TECHNOLOGIES

• PostgreSQL database
• Jbuilder
• Webpack
• Ruby on Rails backend framework
• Ruby on Rails Action Cables - websockets for chat and notifications
• jQuery - Ajax requests
• React.js with Redux.js
• WebRTC

FEATURES

• User authentication
• Custom errors
  
• CSS Animations
• Servers and channels CRUD
• Tracking of all users connected to a server
• Live chat in channels
• Direct Messaging
• Video Chat

COOL BITS OF CODE

A cool bit of code that handles when a new user joins a server, adding them to all currently online users' Server User list.

class ServerChannel < ApplicationCable::Channel
  def subscribed
    user = User.find(params[:user_id])
    newUser = {id: user.id, username: user.username, email: user.email}
    socket = { type: "user", user: newUser, server_id: params[:server_id] }

    ServerChannel.broadcast_to(params[:server_id], socket)

    stream_for params[:server_id]
  end

Before the user creates a websocket connection to the ServerChannel, they make broadcast to all currently online users to update their state to include the new user. This forces everyone to rerender their user list to include the new user.

COMING SOON!

• Voice over IP
• User presence tracker
• User aliasing
• AWS for image uplading for icons