a chatting app that utilizes drawing canvas as its main feature of conversation
- Make a chat room with multiple users
- Send your sketch in a conversation
- Clone the repo
- Go to
frontend/
and runnpm install
- Create a
.env
file in the/frontend
directory (see below) - Enter
npm run dev
to run the react server inPORT=3000
with other dependencies
An environment configuration file is needed to establish the host address for the socket.io server. Create a .env
file and enter the variable below:
REACT_APP_SOCKETIO_URL = '192.168.1.XXX'
where XXX is your local IP address.
Enter npm run [script]
to run various commands on bash. [script]
includes:
dev
: run react server, node server, and node-sassstart
: run react servercss-watch
: run node-sass to watch for changes and compile on style.scss
More scripts in the package.json