diogouchoas / chat-app

Chat App

This repository uses Go (Backend), React (Frontend) and Redis (Messages storage) to deploy a simple chat-app application. There is two frontend docker images (Dockerfile.development and Dockerfile.production), the first one is used by docker-compose for development environment and the other one is used by Circle CI for production environment.

The production (backend) docker file is available on DockerHub - ricardob/chat-app-backend

The production (frontend) docker file is available on DockerHub - ricardob/chat-app-frontend

Table of Contents

1. Requirements
2. Installation
3. License

Requirements

• Git;
• Go; (for development installation)
• Docker; (for development installation)
• Docker Compose; (for development installation)
• nodejs, npm; (for development installation)
• Circle CI account; (for production deployment)

Development Installation

Install and run the application locally:

Using Docker Compose:

1. Clone the repository

With SSH

# git clone [e-mail]:ricardobf/chat-app.git

or with HTTPS

# git clone https://github.com/ricardobf/chat-app.git

2. Navigate to application folder:

# cd chat-app

3. Run docker-compose command:

# docker-compose up

4. On your browser navigate to localhost:3000

Obs.: You can change environment varibles inside docker-compose.yml file.

Production Installation

Running on Circle CI and GitHub

1. Navigate to github.com/ricardobf/chat-app and fork the repository to your own workspace:

2. On another tab, navigate to circleci.com and create or login to an existing Circle CI account using GitHub:

3. On Projects tab, choose the right repository application:

4. On project settings, create environment variables according to your DockerHub account and image name:

5. Wait for the pipeline to run.

License

This project uses Apache License.