Rtewari056 Bitchat Save

Real-time chat application powered by socket.io

🚀 Demo

This application is deployed on DigitalOcean. Please check it out :smile: here.

🖥️ Tech Stack

Frontend:

Backend:

Database:

Deployed On:

⚡️ Features

• Real time communication is supported using Socket.io
• Fully Responsive UI
• User authentication using email with Login as well as Logout feature.
• Passwords are encrypted.
• Toast notifications for user actions.
• Users can create group chat.
• Typing Indicators while other user typing something.

📁 Project structure

├── client/
│   ├── public/
│   │   ├── favicon.ico
│   │   ├── index.html
│   │   ├── logo192.png
│   │   ├── logo512.png
│   │   ├── manifest.json
│   │   └── robots.txt
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── animations/
│   │   │   └── typing.json
│   │   ├── components/
│   │   │   ├── Authentication/
│   │   │   │   ├── Login.jsx
│   │   │   │   └── Signup.jsx
│   │   │   ├── UserAvatar/
│   │   │   │   ├── UserBadgeItem.jsx
│   │   │   │   └── UserListItem.jsx
│   │   │   ├── miscellaneous/
│   │   │   │   ├── GroupChatModal.jsx
│   │   │   │   ├── ProfileModal.jsx
│   │   │   │   ├── SideDrawer.jsx
│   │   │   │   └── UpdateGroupChatModal.jsx
│   │   │   ├── ChatBox.jsx
│   │   │   ├── ChatLoading.jsx
│   │   │   ├── MyChats.jsx
│   │   │   ├── ScrollableChat.jsx
│   │   │   ├── SingleChat.jsx
│   │   │   └── index.js
│   │   ├── config/
│   │   │   └── ChatLogics.js
│   │   ├── context/
│   │   │   └── ChatProvider.js
│   │   ├── pages/
│   │   │   ├── Chat.jsx
│   │   │   ├── Home.jsx
│   │   │   └── index.js
│   │   ├── App.css
│   │   ├── App.js
│   │   └── index.js
│   └── package.json
├── config/
│   ├── connectToMongoDb.js
│   ├── generateHashedPassword.js
│   ├── generateToken.js
│   ├── index.js
│   └── verifyPassword.js
├── controllers/
│   ├── chatControllers.js
│   ├── index.js
│   ├── messageControllers.js
│   └── userControllers.js
├── middleware/
│   ├── authMiddleware.js
│   ├── errorMiddleware.js
│   └── index.js
├── models/
│   ├── Chat.js
│   ├── Message.js
│   ├── User.js
│   └── index.js
├── routes/
│   ├── chatRoutes.js
│   ├── index.js
│   ├── messageRoutes.js
│   └── userRoutes.js
├── .env.example
├── .gitignore
├── LICENSE
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── README.md
└── server.js

📖 Prerequisites

In order to run the project you need node>=16 and npm>=8 installed on your machine.

🚩 Getting Started

1. Clone the bitchat repository:

git clone https://github.com/rtewari056/bitchat.git

2. Navigate into repo:

cd bitchat

3. Rename .env.example into .env and put all creadentials:

PORT=5000
MONGO_URI="YOUR_MONGO_CONNECTION_URL"
JWT_SECRET="YOUR_JWT_SECRET"
JWT_EXPIRE=2d
NODE_ENV=development # Change to "production" when deploying

4. Install package dependencies:

npm install # Server dependencies
cd client
npm install # Client dependencies

4. Run project:

In the root directory, open two terminal sessions and run both commands separately:

npm run client
npm run server

5. Open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000

👤 Developer

Rohit Tewari

📬 Contact

If you want to contact me, you can reach me through below handles.

📃 License

bitchat is licensed under the MIT License.

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