About

This project is a global web chat made with Node.js, MySQL, Sequelize, and React, which I created as my first project involving a real database.

The project contains 2 database modes:

The mock option is suitable for testing the project without the need to launch a database server, but it's not suitable for actual usage.

I hardly recommend not deploying mock to production!

At this moment, the project has no deployed version, but you can deploy locally with only few steps, that I describe on the next section.

How to run locally

To run locally, simply execute the setup script (to define environment variables), and exec the command bellow:

  bash setup.sh

After it, run the project with:

  npm start -- "mysql"

Or, if you want to do tests (nodemon):

  npm test -- "mysql"

You can replace "mysql" to mock if you haven't a database.
Mock is only for tests!

Now, if are all right, you can acess the chat in https://localhost:5000

The server port can be changed by setting "PORT" eviroment variable before run