cometchat-pro-tutorials / airbnb

How to Build an Airbnb Clone

How to Build a Airbnb Clone

Read the full tutorial here: >> How to Build a Airbnb Clone

Technology

This demo uses:

• CometChat Pro 3.0.0
• CometChat UI Kit
• Firebase
• React.js
• Uuid
• Validator
• @emotion/core
• dateformat
• emoji-mart
• react-html-parser
• twemoji

Running the demo

To run the demo follow these steps:

1. Head to CometChat Pro and create an account
2. From the dashboard, add a new app called "airbnb"
3. Select this newly added app from the list.
4. From the Quick Start copy the APP_ID, APP_REGION and AUTH_KEY. These will be used later.
5. Also copy the REST_API_KEY from the API & Auth Key tab.
6. Navigate to the Users tab, and delete all the default users and groups leaving it clean (very important).
7. Download the repository here or by running git clone https://github.com/hieptl/airbnb.git and open it in a code editor.
8. Head to Firebase and create a new project
9. Create a file called .env in the root folder of your project.
10. Import and inject your secret keys in the .env file containing your CometChat and Firebase in this manner.

REACT_APP_FIREBASE_API_KEY=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx

REACT_APP_COMETCHAT_APP_ID=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx
REACT_APP_COMETCHAT_REGION=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx
REACT_APP_COMETCHAT_AUTH_KEY=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx
REACT_APP_COMETCHAT_API_KEY=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx

11. Make sure to exclude .env in your gitIgnore file from being exposed online.
12. Run the following command to install the app.

    npm install
    npm run start

Questions about running the demo? Open an issue. We're here to help ✌️

Useful links

• 🏠 CometChat Homepage
• 🚀 Create your free account
• 📚 Documentation
• 👾 GitHub
• 🔥 Firebase
• 🔷 React.js