Meteor Chat

A chat app built using Meteor and React. Featuring an astronomical theme, authentication, a friends list, and many more features to come.

Preview

Check out the app on Heroku. Do keep in mind that as I work towards releasing the first version, changes in the backend will cause some things to break. The MongoDB backend is hosted on mLab's 500mb free plan on a single database shared by multiple projects, and so that is another potential point of failure.

Installation

Install Meteor if you haven't already. curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

Clone the repo. git clone https://github.com/Ardhimas/meteor-sandbox.git

Navigate to root folder. cd meteor-sandbox

Run the app. meteor

Usage

Create an account, no verification required.
Find another person or open a private browser to create another account.
Add each other to begin chatting with them - friend requests are on the roadmap but for now y'all need to add each other.
Start chatting!

File Structure

|-- .meteor/        # auto generated meteor files, do not touch
|-- client/         # client entry point
|-- imports/        # where the magic happens
|---- api/          # backend code and tests
|---- startup/      # initialization/config files
|---- ui/           # frontend code - react jsx files
|-- public/         # static files
|-- server/         # server entry point
|-- .eslintrc.json  # linting rules because messy code hurts my soul
|-- .gitignore      # file patterns to not commit, currently configured only for OSX
|-- package.json    # node package dependencies
|-- yarn.lock       # auto generated yarn file, do not touch

Contributing

Fork it!
Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
Submit a pull request :D

License

MIT, but I sure hope you don't use this in production for anything because there are production-ready alternatives out there such as Rocket Chat.