do-chat

This is a sample ChatApp project that uses redux-pender to handle asynchronous actions. This project is a good examplary project that uses Ducks Structure for redux. It is very well-commented, so reading through the codes of this project might be useful if you are a React beginner.

Firebase is used as backend in this app.

Preview is available at: https://dochat.vlpt.us/

Features

• Realtime chat
• Optimized Infinite Scrollable MessageList component
• Notification sound when the page is not focused.

Getting Started

Create Firebase Project

This chat application uses firebase to store messages. Go to Firebase Console and create a new project. Then, open the database from the sidebar, then click the Rules tab.

Copy & Paste the rule below:

{
  "rules": {
    "online": {
      ".write": true,
      ".read": true
    },
    "messages": {
      ".write": true,
      ".read": true,
      ".indexOn": "time"
    }
  }
}

Since this project is just a sample project, this database is not secured enough, and allows every data read & write on online and messages. To make it more secure, you will need to implement the user authentication part, and alter the database rules accordingly.

Prerequisites

• yarn (or npm)

That's all!

Installing

yarn
# or npm install

Use yarn, it is way faster than npm.

Development Server

This command will start the webpack-dev-server

yarn start

Build

This command will create optimized bundle files of the project.

yarn build

This project does not come with a backend server. Every data logic is dependant on firebase. Serve the public directory on your static web server. (You can use surge or now)