React Chat App

This is an example of a basic real time chat app using React, Socket.io and Cosmic JS. This example consists of the following:

1. React for UI
2. Babel for ES6 and JSX transformation
3. Webpack for bundling
4. Socket.io for real-time communication
5. Cosmic JS for saving and returning messages from a cloud-hosted API

The following dev tools are used:

1. ESLint to make sure our code is consistent
2. React Hot Loader for instant updates on save

Install

Run the following commands to install the app:

git clone https://github.com/tonyspiro/react-chat-app
cd react-chat-app
npm install

Run in production

Run the following command to run the app in production:

npm start

View the app running in production at http://localhost:3000

Run in development

Run the following commands to run the app in development with hot reloading:

npm start server

and in another terminal tab run:

npm run development

View the app running in development at http://localhost:8080

Configure your own chat app

1. Set up a bucket in Cosmic JS with an object type of messages.
2. Edit config.js:

// config.js
export default {
  bucket: {
    slug: 'your-bucket-slug',
    type_slug: 'messages'
  },
  server: {
    host: process.env.APP_URL || 'http://localhost:3000'
  }
}