Install
- unzip file or
git clone https://github.com/a15n/door-chat.git
npm install && npm run start
(oryarn && yarn start
)- In a new terminal window run
npm run server
(oryarn run server
) - go to
http://localhost:3000/
Learnings
- This was the first app I've built using React. I haven't studied Redux yet but I think that a Redux approach to managing state would have been better than my way of storing it in the ChatPage component.
- I used a "pods" structure to organize my code. Each component has a JS file, a CSS file, and a test file. This made it easy to know where all the code was located. I didn't have one
component/
folder with ~10 components in it. - React needs a CLI tool. Using Ember CLI I could run
ember generate component foo-bar
and it would spin up the appropriate JS, HTML, test, etc files. Adding them manually is laborious.