Convolink

A websocket chat application built with socket.io, React.js, Express.js, Node.js and MongoDB.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

• Node
• npm
• MongoDB

Installing

• Clone the repository

• Add variables.env to the project root

  • example: variables.env

NODE_ENV=development
DATABASE=mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@<dburi>
SECRET=choclatechip
KEY=cookiesncream
PORT=7777

• Install dependencies and seed the database with sample data

npm run build

• Run the development servers

npm run dev

Users

Name	Email (login)	Password
Admin	[email protected]	admin
Ben	[email protected]	ben
Eli	[email protected]	eli

Built With

• React - The client side javascript framework
• Semantic UI - ui framework
• Socket.io - Web socket library for realtime bi-directional communication between wb clients and servers.
• MongoDB - Database
• Express - Node.js web application framework

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License