LaurenSpiegel / flashback-chat

Flashback Chat

A simple web chat app reminiscent of AOL including emojis :) (of course)

Demo

To view a live hosted instance of the app, visit this link.

Tech stack

• Flashback Chat is built with React/Flux on the front-end and Node/Express on the back-end.
• There is a PostgreSQL database set up with Sequelize.
• Socket.io enables real-time chat.
• Gulp is used to automate the build.

Development

To run locally:

1. npm install
2. bower install
3. set up PostgreSQL database named 'chatApp' with user-name 'chatter1'
4. use command 'gulp' to start server
5. app runs on localhost:3000