Chitter-box

Chitter-box is a real-time chat application built using React.js, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, and Firebase as the backend to store Messages and Chat-rooms. End-users can authenticate with Google Auth or remain a Guest while chatting. Users have the ability to create new rooms, send and delete their messages, and navigate to different chat rooms to start chatting.

Get started

View the deployed application https://chat-msging-app.herokuapp.com/
OR
Run app locally by following the steps below:

1. git clone repo to your local
   
2. cd to the chitter-box directory
   
3. run npm install to install dependencies
   
4. run npm start to start your application
   
5. Your browser should open up a window with your application running
   

Future Enhancements

• Add ability to edit chat messages
• Add user permission roles to validate actions
• Add ability to delete chat rooms as an Admin
• Have default Guest username include a number that increments as each new guest uses the application