A simple chat web app as my playground for Rails and React, overly engineered for fun and learning.
These are the versions that I used on my dev environment. I didn't test the app on lower or higher versions:
- PostgreSQL 9.5
- Ruby 2.3.3
- Node v7.7.4
I wanted to build an app where I could practice and learn more about React and Rails 5, specially using the new Webpacker and applying React/JavaScript best practices. I hope that other devs can learn something useful from my implementation.
These are the notable tools/libraries/frameworks that I used:
- Rails 5
- Webpacker (with
webpacker:install:react) - ActionCable (Websocket for chat)
- SimpleCommand (Gem for writing service objects)
- JWT (JSON Web Token for authentication)
- RSpec
- ES6
- StandardJS (For JS linting)
- Flow (For static typing)
- React
- Redux
- redux-saga (For better and cleaner management of side-effects)
- React Router v4
- Redux Form v6
The app still has a long way to go and there are more tools that I need to explore. Here are the things that I still need to add:
- Add jest tests
- Add CI build
- HMR
- Add support for storing token in localStorage
- Show previous messages
- Show message timestamp
- Show online users
- Use Docker
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
- Thank you internet for all the helpful resources and smart people.