React Chat Backend 💬

This project is the backend of my personal project that i called React Chat.

If you're looking for the frontend of this project, click here

Table of contents

• General info
• Apresentation
• Technologies
• Setup
• Features
• Status

General info

This is a basic real time chat developed to increase my knowledge in React, Node.js and Socket.io. If you feel it can help you with something, feel free to use partly or totally this code. 😋

Apresentation

Technologies that i used

• Node.js
• Express
• Sequelize
• Socket.io
• Typescript
• PostgreSQL
• Helmet

Setup

In the project directory, you can run:

npm install Install the dependencies

npx sequelize-cli db:migrate Run the migrations. You need to create a pg database called react-chat before run the migrations.

npm run dev Runs the api in the development mode in: http://localhost:3100

Features

• Register Account
• Confirm Account by email
• Recovery Password
• Login
• Change profile picture
• Find and talk to other persons

To-do list:

• Block persons
• Send files (gif, images, emojis);
• Exclude a message
• Change status (online, show as offline, busy...)

Status

This project is being developed in my free time