A simple web chat app reminiscent of AOL including emojis :) (of course)
To view a live hosted instance of the app, visit this link.
- Flashback Chat is built with React/Flux on the front-end and Node/Express on the back-end.
- There is a PostgreSQL database set up with Sequelize.
- Socket.io enables real-time chat.
- Gulp is used to automate the build.
To run locally:
- npm install
- bower install
- set up PostgreSQL database named 'chatApp' with user-name 'chatter1'
- use command 'gulp' to start server
- app runs on localhost:3000