blackphoenix42 / chat-app

A full-stack web chat application where users can send messages to each other. It has many amazing features like group chats, send files, authentication, profile update, etc.

CHAT.IO

📃 About

A chat app where users can send messages to each other. This project’s backend and frontend has an authentication system. It achieves real-time communication using socket.io and has many amazing features.

Few Awesome Features 🕹

• Send and receive messages in real-time 📧

• Update Profile 👨🏻‍🏫

• Upload and send files 📁

🌱 Quick Start

• Star🌟 and Fork this repository

• Clone this repository remotely.

git clone https://github.com/blackphoenix42/chat-app.git`

Backend 🌐

• Download and install PostgreSQL🐘

• Navigate to backend directory

cd .\backend\

• Install the dependencies

npm install

• Add PostgresSQL databse password in .env.EXAMPLE file and remove .EXAMPLE from the extension.

• Create chat_app database in pgAdmin. (You can provide a different name but change it too in the .env file.)

• In the terminal, run the following command to create tables in database

npx sequelize-cli db:migrate

• Send dummy data to the database.

npx sequelize-cli db:seed:all

• Start the server

npm start

Frontend 💻

• Navigate to frontend directory

cd .\frontend\

• Install the dependencies

npm install

• Start the app

npm start

🔑Credentials

Use following credentials to try out the app.

email:[e-mail]
password:secret

📚 Technology Stack

• React
• Nodejs
• Express
• PostgreSQL

🚀 How to Contribute to Chat-App?

• Take a look at the Existing Issues or create your own Issues!
• Check out CONTRIBUTING.md
• Start contributing to add yourself in README.md 🤙🏻

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