This project is an WhatsApp clone developed using React Native and TypeScript. It includes features such as user authentication/registration, adding contacts, account editing, send messages/images, all in REAL TIME. The project also utilizes Redux for global state management and Firebase for backend services, including Firebase Storage for storing media files, Firestore for the database.
- User Authentication: User Authentication: login & sign-up via firebase.
- Real-time Messaging: Send and receive messages in real-time, creating a seamless chatting experience similar to WhatsApp.
- Account Management: Edit profile information and update profile picture.
- Contact Management: Add and manage contacts to easily connect with friends and family.
- Media Sharing: Share photos and other media files from the device gallery with contacts..
- Notifications: Implement push notifications to alert users about new messages and updates.
- Seen Message System: Users can see if they're message was seen by the ther contact.
- UI Design: Modern UI with Ui Kitten, React Native Elements, and React Native Paper.
- State Management: Efficient state management with Redux.
- React Native: Popular open-source JavaScript framework for cross-platform mobile app development.
- Typescript: Superset of JavaScript with optional static typing for improved code quality and tooling.
- Redux: Predictable state container for managing application state in JavaScript apps.
- Git: Version control system for tracking code changes and facilitating collaboration.
- npm: JavaScript package manager for easy dependency management.
- Firebase: A comprehensive backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platform provided by Google.
- Visual Studio Code: Popular code editor with rich features for code editing and debugging.
- Figma: Web-based design tool for creating UI/UX designs and prototypes.
Before running the application, you need to configure Firebase services. Follow the steps below:
Create a Firebase project at https://firebase.google.com if you haven't already.
- Enable Firebase Authentication, Firestore, and Firebase Storage for your project.
- Obtain the Firebase configuration object from the Firebase console.
- Update the Firebase configuration in the project code.
- Create a folder "backend" with file firebase.ts and replace the following lines with your Firebase configuration:
import firebase from "firebase/compat/app";
import "firebase/compat/auth";
import "firebase/compat/firestore";
import "firebase/compat/storage"
import "firebase/compat/database"
const firebaseConfig = {
//your config goes here
};
if (!firebase.apps.length) {
const app = firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
}
export { firebase };
To deploy this project run
npx expo start 
- UI Kitten: A customizable UI library for React Native that provides various UI components.
- React Native Elements: A set of cross-platform UI components for React Native applications.
- React Native Paper: A material design implementation for React Native, providing UI components and theming options.
- Analyzed project requirements and identified specific needs and features for each application.
- Researched and evaluated technologies and frameworks for cross-platform compatibility, performance, and developer experience.
- Set up the development environment and configured necessary tools, libraries, and dependencies.
- Used a modular architecture pattern, separating the code into small, reusable components, to ensure seperation of concerns and efficient testing.
- Used Git for collaboration, code management, and change tracking.
Given infinite time, here are some exciting features I would add to enhance the user experience:
- Group Chat: Foster seamless collaboration and teamwork through group conversations.
- Video/Audio Calls: Enable real-time video and audio calls to connect people across distances.
- Message Reactions: Express emotions and provide quick feedback with message reactions.
- Swipe to Reply: Streamline conversations with an intuitive swipe-to-reply feature.
Whether you use this project, have learned something from it, or just like it, please consider supporting it by buying me a coffee, so I can dedicate more time on building open-source projects like this :)
The WhatsApp Clone is open-source and released under the GNU General Public License
For any inquiries or questions regarding the WhatsApp Clone application, please contact me at d_jurma@yahoo.com