#LIVE SITE https://cheshire-chat.netlify.app/
A chat application I've created in order for teams to stay in contact with each other, users can be added by the chat room owner. This web application uses React, Firebase and the chat-engine API.
-HTML -CSS -JS/JSX -React (inc useState and context API) -React-router-dom -Axios -Firebase -Chat-Engine API -Ant-Icons
Creating this app was an excellent learning experience and has dramatically enhanced my React knowledge. This web application consumes the chat-engine api as well as makes FireBase calls in order to render the chat bubbles and UI. Users can log in with either Google or Facebook sign in and both are extremely intuitive to implement. Once a user has logged in they are redirected thanks to React-router-dom to the chats page. From this page a user can become the mod of a chat and add people from there (see below images). Messages sent from a user in a chat will have a read-receipt to let all chat members see read messages aswell as who has read them. Furthermore a user can attach images to the chat in order for quick file transfers.
LOGIN PAGE
CHAT PAGE
In App.js I am importing { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch, Route } from "react-router-dom" to allow for the routing of the pages. Below I am importing my context in order to transfer data between all components wrapped in the AuthProvider tags in the render function, I am then importing both the chats and login page for rendering.
The render function is rendering a div which contains the Browser router, context provider tags and then the switch tag for routing between both pages on the site.
Inside of this file I am creating the context needed for the chat app, first storing React.createContext() inside const AuthContext, then creating a useAuth function which can be used later in order to grab context (this function is being exported).
Inside of the AuthProvider function I am passing children in as props in order for rednering between the AuthProvider tags in App.JS, inside of this function there is a useEffect hook which getting the data from the firebase auth function being imported from ../firebase this user data is then used to set a user and siwtch the loading state to false in order to redirect to /chats.
Inside this functional component I'm importing some icons from @ant-icons aswell as the auth component inside of my firebase filder in order to make calls to the firebase API to log people in and out with both Google and Facebook.
The render div is simply rendering a card with a title and 2 buttons which onClick will either;
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