ScottDikowitz/Grouply-UI

socket.io chat client

Grouply

Grouply is a responsive, slack-like chat app which uses the latest technologies such as Socket.io, Webpack, Node.js and React-Redux to enable group chatting.

Languages

• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS/React Inline Styles

Frameworks

• Node.js
• Express
• React and Redux

Libraries and Technologies

• Node technologies
  • Webpack
  • Axios
  • Express
  • Passport
  • Facebook OAuth
  • Socket.io
• DB technologies
  • MongoDB/Mongoose
  • Redis

App features

• Incorporates latest JavaScript ES6 features and syntax
• Webpack used to manage JavaScript module dependencies and to load ES6 and bundle
• Logging in with Facebook establishes client to server WebSocket connection
• Global chat room and private, peer to peer chat supported
• Stores user and chat messages in MongoDB, Sessions in Redis server

Getting started

• To start this ui server, type npm run dev.
• Please also get and run the api server at https://github.com/ScottDikowitz/Grouply-API.
• Finally navigate to http://localhost:5000.