A fully-featured chatting app that harnesses the power of real-time data through the use of web sockets. Users have the ability to chat one-on-one or in groups, bookmark notable messages, and view other users' profiles.
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- Work with sockets and explore real-time data.
- Handle building a web app with complex, changing state, using React and Redux.
- Build a detailed, well featured web app.
- Custom-built middleware for Redux to handle socket actions and events.
- Utilized higher order components.
- State manager architecture
- Managing shared state.
- Updating same state in multiple components was challenging.
- Future: would like to model my data and components more deeply before building.
- Building a complex front end with many views
- Rendering appropriate view when there are many options.
- Handling components who use/manage same state (sometimes updating both at once).
- Future: break down components into smaller pieces and utilize higher order components more to handle rendering logic.
- Handling socket actions and events in normal flow of Redux state management.
- Socket event listening and emitting could not occur within components.
- Having sockets update state used by multiple components simultaneously.
- Build custom-built middleware for Redux to solve this problem .
- React
- Redux
- Socket.io
- Node
- Express
- JWT
- Bcrypt
- Knex
- Postgresql
- Heroku
- Cloudinary
- Webpack
Check out much of my workflow on Trello.