This is my latest iteration of a custom messaging platform designed to be similar to Discord / Slack. Currently, I'm working on the next iteration, utilizing all of the things I learned while making this one; however, the basics on this one are still fully functional!
Features:
- Custom authentication system
- Persistent messaging between users
- Accepting / denying Direct Message requests
- Secure information storage
NodeJS, MongoDB, ExpressJS, JavaScript
Ideally, to customize a messaging platform to my specifications! I've always felt current messaging platforms tend to be semi-bloated or have poor UX. Eventually, this will hopefully be a way for me to try out my own versions.
Plus, I had wanted to make a full stack web application for quite a while, and this was a perfect use case! I learned quite a lot from this one about routing, client side handling combined with server side, etc; so much so I wanted to try again from the ground up, which is what I'm currently working on.
Also, as always, it was really fun! 🙂
Make sure you have a Mongo database beforehand!
- Clone the repo, and rename ".env-example" to ".env"
- In .env, paste the following:
MONGO_URL="" SECRET=""
- Put your values into the quotes.
- Run
npm run server - That's it! Your instance is live on port 4105 by default.