davemooreuws / nchat

Secure realtime chat using Websockets, Next.js, Nitric and Clerk

NChat

Realtime chat using Websockets, Next.js, Nitric and Clerk.

This example uses nitric v0, please raise an issue if you would like a v1 example.

Tools used

• Clerk
• Next.js
• Nitric
• Tailwind CSS

Demo

You can view and participate in a live demo here.

Apologies if the demo is down, if you're interested in trying it out let me know in issues or you can also run it on your local machine or deploy it to your own AWS account.

Local Development

Requirements

• Nitric CLI
• Node.js
• yarn

Steps

1. yarn install
2. Install the Nitric CLI
3. Create a Clerk App for development purposes.
4. Add GitHub as a social connection under User & Authentication -> Social Connections.
5. Get your Clerk API Keys under Developers -> API Keys
6. cp .env.example .env and add values for NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY and CLERK_SECRET_KEY from step 5.
7. yarn dev:server
8. yarn dev

Deploy to Production

Requirements

• Nitric CLI
• Node.js
• yarn
• Pulumi configured on your machine
• AWS configured on your machine

Steps

1. Fork and Push this repo to GitHub
2. Create a Clerk App for production purposes.
3. Deploy backend to AWS using nitric up
4. Deploy to Vercel and add .env values (NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY, NEXT_PUBLIC_NITRIC_API_BASE_URL*, CLERK_SECRET_KEY)

* NEXT_PUBLIC_NITRIC_API_BASE_URL is your production API endpoint. You can find this from the cli output after using nitric up to deploy to the cloud.