Cheers Mate!

Live example hosted on heroku can be found at cheersm8.tk

Talking to your friends couldn't be simpler!

It is built using the React, Express, simple-peer, and BulmaCSS.

Features

Essentially, here're some of its features:

• 4 Person private meeting rooms
• Silent Disconnects
• Clean mono-repo structure with Express Server and React Client
• Copy and Paste meeting rooms
• WebSockets used for peering
• Pretty UI using Bulma and Styled Components
• Easy deployability on Heroku

Setting Up

Recommended Tools Checklist

• Git Clone this repository
• Create a Heroku account
• Install Node.JS
• Install Yarn Package Manager

Installing Requirements

$ git clone https://github.com/mhwilkes/Cheers-Mate.git
$ cd Cheers-Mate
$ yarn setup

Configuring Enviromental Variable

Create a ".env" in "src/client", it should look like the following:

REACT_APP_API_URL="http://localhost:5000"

Running Project

$ # run both server and client
$ yarn dev
$ # run server only
$ yarn server
$ # run client only
$ yarn client

To Deploy

Deploying this project on Heroku is dead simple. Basically, go on Heroku and create a new Heroku app, connect your project Github to your new Heroku app, and hit Deploy. Note, that you will need to configure the environmental variable under settings.