Chat App - React, Node, MySql

Created by: Orit Kozolin

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App Functional requirenments

Basic functionality

A public chat room where users log in with a nickname and go straight to the chat. They will:

● send messages to the public chat room

● receive new messages in the public chat room while connected

● each user would have an random colored avatar by his message in the chat.

UX/UI

● The design should be responsive and fill the available screen space (i.e. stretched layout not boxed layout).

● Use Material/Bootstrap

Future implementation

● see the last 10 messages (prior to the connection / entering the public chat room)

● Connect to MySql DB

● Deploy to production server

Flow Design

Take a closer look here

Tech Stack

• Client: React + Material UI
• Server: Express (Node)
• DB: MySql with ORM (Sequelize)

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Getting Started

Development mode

cd server-chat-app
npm run dev

The script above will automaticly run both client and server, using the 'concurrently' package. Alternatively you can run them seperatly by the following scripts:

• For the Client

npm run client

• For the Server

npm start

• ports

  Client: http://localhost:3005

  Server: http://localhost:3002