💬 A slack-alike chat

A minimalistic chat based on websockets. Core features are: messaging and channels (with couple of default ones and creating, renaming and deleting new ones).

🖥️ How to install

  1. git clone ...
  2. make install

👾 How to run and play around

While in project root directory:

  make start

This will start both frontend and backend. Go to localhost:3000 to check the chat ;)

See other options and commands in Makefile.

To enter the chat, you can sign up as a new user or sign in as an admin with the same password.

🛠️ Tech Stack

Client: React, Redux Toolkit, React-Bootstrap, socket.io

Server: Fastify, socket.io

Additional libraries:

• i18next for easy re-use and editing all UI texts
• axios for fetching first-load chat data
• formik for making react forms
• yup for forms validation schemas
• react router for routing in the SPA
• toastify for nice toasty notifications
• leo-profanity for filtering bad words in EN and RU
• axios for fetching first-load chat data
• eslint with air-bnb rules for checking the code
• rollbar to watch for client errors in production

🕸️ Play around with deployed instance of the Chat:

https://a-slack-alike-chat-pet.onrender.com