A chatting app that allows users to communicate with each other without having to register accounts. It uses React, a popular front-end library created and used heavily by Facebook as well as modern tools for Node including Webpack and Babel. <--- Hence the clever name ;)
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Primarily a client-side SPA (single-page app) built with ReactJS Contains a chat log displaying messages and notifications Contains an input field to change your name and an input field to send a message The client-side app communicates with a server via WebSockets for multi-user real-time updates No persistent database is involved; the focus is on the client-side experience
- Fork this repo and clone your fork to your local machine.
- Install dependencies using the npm install command.
- Navigate to the project's home folder and start the client server using npm start.
- In a separate terminal window, cd into the chatty_app directory and run the server using npm start.
- Visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser
- Babel
- CSS
- Eslint
- Express
- React
- React-DOM
- Sass
- Webpack
- ws