Real-Time-Chat-Application

This is a fun project to practice real-time chatting functionalities.

Overview

By using this web-application, one can chat with a user, search a user. This is role base access control system, only admin user can access the user management page. There are 3 endpoints for this project. All the endpoints are protected by using JWT authorization cookies.

1. User Handler
2. Login Handler
3. Inbox handler

Prerequisites

You should have NodeJs, ExpressJs and MongoDB installed in your local machine.

How to run

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/SakibAlEmran/Real-Time-Chat-Application.git

2. Go to working directory

cd Real-Time-Chat-Application

3. Create directory: public/uploads and public/uploads/avatars
4. create a .env file and assign the value. Here is the list of the .env file variables:

APP_NAME, 
APP_URL,
PORT,
MONGO_CONNECTION_STRING,
COOKIE_SECRET,
JWT_SECRET,
JWT_EXPIRY,
COOKIE_NAME,

5. See package.json file and install all dependencies using npm or yarn
6. Start the MongoDb database server

sudo systemctl start mongod

7. start the server

yarn start || npm start

8. You can make request using browser to gel Html response(ejs view engine rendering) or Postman for json response.

Credit:

I have followed a youtube tutorial playlist by Sumit Saha to do this project. Playlist link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xihtoTIy-ms&list=PLHiZ4m8vCp9PHnOIT7gd30PCBoYCpGoQM&index=30&ab_channel=LearnwithSumitBangladesh. Some of the files(public(images, js, stylesheet), views) are taken from the project file.

Contact:

Email: sakib.imran0909@gmail.com