React Chat App

Chat application developed using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js and Node.js).

Getting started

Pre-requisites

Before starting to work on this project, you must have Node.js installed on your machine.

Also, check out the guidelines used in this project here.

Quick start

# Install dependencies on the server side
npm install

# Install dependencies on the client side
npm client-install

# Run the client & server with concurrently
npm run dev

# Run the Express server only
npm run server

# Run the React client only
npm run client

Notes:

• Add your MongoDB connection strings in dbKeys.js (inside the config folder).

  if(process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
      module.exports = { mongoURI: '' }; // Add your remote db connection string here
  } else {
      module.exports = { mongoURI: '' }; // Add your local db connection string here
  }
  

• Add your session secret key in sessionConfig.js (inside the config folder).

  module.exports = {
      secret: ''
  }
  

• Port for the client: 3000. Port for the server and the proxy: 5000. If you have to change the port for the server or the proxy, remember to change both!

Version

1.0.0