Chat App with Socket.io

A real time chat app built with Socket.io, React, Node, Express, Material-UI

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Table of Contents

• About

• Tech Stack

• Work flow

• Getting started

About

A real time chat app built with Socket.io, React for frontend, Node/Express for backend, Material-UI. Backend is deployed on Heroku, frontend is deployed on Netlify.

Tech Stack

• ReactJS, NodeJS, Express
• Material-UI
• Socket.io

Work flow

• Users input name and room to join chat.

• Users in the same room can chat together, list of joined users is displayed

Getting started

1. In order to run this app, you need to have node.js installed.

2. git clone repo_link

3. Install server-side dependencies and start running:

cd server

npm install

npm run start

4. Install client-side dependencies and start running:

cd client

npm install

npm  start