🗨️ ChatApp

A simple real-time chat app built with React, Socket.IO, and Node.js.

Live demo :

https://barja-chatapp.netlify.app/

🎯 Features:

• Real-time messaging
• User online status
• Group chat rooms
• Responsive

💻 Requirements

Before start, make sure you've met the following requirements:

• You have Node.js installed;
• You have NPM or YARN installed;
• You have a code editor installed (e.g. Visual Studio Code).

Getting Started:

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/BarJames12/chatApp-react-socket.io-nodejs.git

2a. Go to the project working directory

cd chatApp-react-socket.io-nodejs

2b. After that go to each side folder (client & server):

cd client
or
cd server

3. Install dependencies for each side (client & server):

npm install

Be aware that you npm do the npm inside the client/ server folders

4. Start the client

npm start

5. Start the server on another terminal

cd ..
cd server
npm start

Open your browser to http://localhost:3000

**You can also open browser to http://localhost:3000 on two tabs to communicate between two users ☝️ !

Technologies Used

• React
• Socket.IO
• Node.js
• Express
• React-Bootstrap

Thanks and hope you can click on the ⭐ !