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Rethink Node Chat Server.

A RethinkDB chat server with NodeJS Hapi framework.

The idea is to demonstrate how to to build a real time chat server with RethinkDB, HapiJS(NodeJS) and socket.io .

Create a rethinkDB database named 'rethinkchat' (If you don't have RethinkDB installed, you can follow these instructions to get it up and running.)
Clone the project from git.
Go to 'rethink-node-chat-server' directory ( cd rethink-node-chat-server ).
Run yarn or npm install .
If you have different database configurations then you can change the index.js file under ./src/config directory and config.js file under ./rethinkdb-config directory.
Run npm run initapp to populate database with dummy data (windows users should replace initapp script with SET NODE_ENV=development & node scripts/init-dev.js in package.json file).
Run npm start to start the server.

API server will start at 'http://localhost:3030' and chat server(socket) will start at 'http://localhost:5000' but you will have to configure the chat client app at 'https://github.com/arman37/rethink-node-chat-client' to see how the API & Socket work.