ChitChatBot is for anyone who wants a friend with no drama. You can simply have a simple conversation, share a laugh, or get emotional support anywhere anytime! This AI friend will talk to you untill you are Happy and claping your hands 👏👏👏.
This app is built by a React front end with an ExpressJS back end and provides a way to work in development by running a React Dev Server along with the API backend, and also to run a unified back end/front end when pushed to Heroku. It also includes TypeScript for both client and server.
https://github.com/May-Manmai/chitchatbot.git
https://lit-ridge-01907.herokuapp.com/
Auto install all dependencies for client and server:
npm install
Run a development server for React and an Express Back end with nodemon auto re-start and ts-node
npm run dev
Head to localhost:3000 for development. The Express API runs on port 3001 and is proxied through the React App on port 3000. Any changes to server or client automatically update and reflect in the app with a page refresh. Make sure that the "proxy" property in the client package.json file is set to the local URL of your Express Backend.
You can mimic what Heroku will do in production by running the following.
Auto install all dependencies for client and server:
npm install
Build a production React App
npm build
Start a production server:
npm run start:local
Head to localhost:3000. Both the API and the built React front end are now running on the same server. No code gets auto-updated in this mode.
Note that the line const port = process.env.PORT || (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' && 3000) || 3001; is particularly important in server/server.ts as this will allow us to change the port in production to 3000, and run by default on 3001 for development mode. It basically says that if the PORT is set directly, we should use it; otherwise, if we're in production use port 3000. Otherwise, use port 3001.
This project uses .nvmrc to determine the node version for development and package.json for Heroku. You can run the following to install and use the version locally:
nvm install
nvm use
Heroku will use the version defined in package.json "engines" property. Make sure .nvmrc and package.json versions of Node match.
Youtube API Giphy API
https://www.svgrepo.com/ https://react-bootstrap.netlify.app/