Beacon GeoChat

A free, multiplatform messaging app prototype, lets you choose a range where you want to find chat buddies to communicate with all with just a Wi-Fi connection.

Beacon GeoChat is especially awesome among friends and family and random people who want to stay in touch.

Screenshots

• Chat Page

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• Map Page

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• Settings Page

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• Dark Mode

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• Signup Page

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• Login Page

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• Restore Password Page

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Tech/framework used

• TypeScript

• Nest.js

• Prisma

• PostgreSQL

• POSTGIS

• Passport.js

• Socket.IO

• React.js

• Ionic

• Leaflet

Installing / Getting started

Have Docker and Docker-compose installed. Then from root:

docker-compose up

Developing

A brief intro for developers in order to start developing the project further:

clone the project and install all needed dependencies

git clone git@github.com:odedindi/GeoChat.git
cd GeoChat/
yarn install

yarn dev

Now we started both server (localhost:4000) and client (localhost:8100)

Features

What's all the bells and whistles this project can perform?

• A live chat using Socket.io, where a use can get mentioned and mention other users in his range of preferrence.
• A live map where a user can see where he\she got mentioned
• Personalize user's settings, upload a personal avatar or choose a random one, change range, privacy and personal preferrences and more

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, please fork the repository and use a feature branch. Pull requests are warmly welcome.

Links

• Project homepage: https://github.com/odedindi/GeoChat
• Repository: git@github.com:odedindi/GeoChat.git
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/odedindi/GeoChat/issues
  • In case of sensitive bugs like security vulnerabilities, please contact odedindi@gmail.com directly instead of using issue tracker. I value the care and effort to improve the security and privacy of this project!

Licensing

The code in this project is licensed under MIT license.