Chat-App

UnifiedMentor Internship Project. The project is a fully fledged web application built for the purpose of real-time communication with friends and family members

In Action

To see the application into action, go to

 $> chat-app-45vt.onrender.com

Getting Started

These instructions will help you to get a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

• NodeJs - Runtime Environment
• MongoDB - Database
• Socket.IO - For Bidirectional and low-latency communication
• Vanilia Js - For Intreative components

What things you need to install the software and how to install them

 $> git clone https://github.com/Firoz2002/Chat_App/.git

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development env running

Getting started

First, create an .env file locally. Please note that you need to intialize the following environment variables to run the project

SECRET = <YOUR JWT SECRET>
DB_URI = <YOUR MONGODB DATABASE CONNECTION STRING>

Backend

First install all the back-end dependencies

 $> npm install

Then run app

 $> npm start

Built With

• Express - A restful API framework
• MongoDB - Database
• Socket.IO - Communication
• Render - Hosting

Upcoming Features

• Improved UI
• User-profile
• moderators
• And more.

Author

Firoz Kamdar - Full-stack developer

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• ExpressJs ecosystem
• JWT
• Bcrypt
• Multer
• Socket.IO
• Mongoose
• Render
• Freepik
• Cloudinary
• Font-Awesome