hoummani/crystal-chat

this is a small real time chat application

crystal-chat

this is a small real time chat application

technologies

• Node/Express
• MongoDB as database
• GraphQL & GraphQL Subscription with redis
• Apollo client and server
• React/React Hooks and Tailwindcss
• React Framer Motion
• Moment and React-Moment

How to run

• Inside the root folder of this project create .env file and paste these variables:

  • PORT=4000
  • JWT_KEY=bcXVb_DUJK_LL_MEniqChat;
  • MONGO_CONNECTION=mongodb://localhost:27017/crystal-chat-database
  • REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
  • REDIS_PORT=6379

• The same for client side you have to navigate to chat-ui folder and create .env file and paste these variables too:

  • REACT_APP_GRAPHQL_SERVER=http://localhost:4000/graphql
  • REACT_APP_GRAPHQL_SUBSCRIPTION=ws://localhost:4000/graphql
  • REACT_APP_FILES_STORE=http://localhost:4000/

• Run the app by executing the npm start command in the root folder and another one inside React app (chat-ui folder)