Node.js - React - SockJS chat

A simple chat application featuring Node.js as the backend server, SockJS for handling socket connections and React on the frontend handling view updates.

See it in action: http://chat.trina.si/

Setup:

$ npm install -g concurrently webpack-dev-server nodemon
$ npm install

For running development server:

$ npm run-script watch

In development, Node.js is running on port 8080, requests from the client are proxied to it by webpack-dev-server running on port 3000.

Browse to:

http://localhost:3000/

For running production server:

$ npm run-script production

With this command, all React files are bundled with webpack and a single Node.js server instance runs at port 8080, serving the bundled files as static assets.

Browse to:

http://localhost:8080/

Docker support

$ docker-compose up -d

Mounts the files into a container and exposes port 8001.