💬 Realtime Chat With React and Node

This project was created to learn more about Web Sockets and realtime applications using Node and React.

The main idea of the project is very simple: the user sign in with a name and a status, choose another user and start a conversation with him. Programming something like this is not as easy as may seem, but there are many tutorials out there to learn everything that is needed for this project.

⚡ Technologies

Back-end

TypeScript
Node
Express
Socket IO Server
Eslint
Prettier

Front-end

TypeScript
React
Styled Components
Eslint
Prettier
Socket IO Client
date-fns

🚀 What I Learned With This Project

Socket.io is a very easy and powerful library. When you understand how it works everything become easy.
The combination of React + Node + TypeScript is very powerful and productive.

ℹ️ How To Use

To clone and run this application, you'll need the latest version of Git, Node.js + Yarn installed on your computer.

Then run these comands on the terminal:

# Clone the project from GitHub
$ git clone https://github.com/LuanEdCosta/react-node-realtime-chat.git

# Go into the project folder
$ cd react-node-realtime-chat

# -- Now open two terminal tabs or windows --

# In the first terminal run
$ cd website
$ yarn install
$ yarn start

# In the second terminal run
$ cd backend
$ yarn install
$ yarn dev

👨 Author

Luan Eduardo da Costa | Follow me on Linkedin