Chat

Simple Chat App using MERN Stack, Socket.io for Real Time Communication and JWT for authentication.

How to use

You can have this application up and running with just a few steps because it has both the frontend and the backend in a single repository. Follow the steps below to do so.

1. Clone this repo
2. After that, cd inside frontend and backend and run npm install.
3. Create .env file inside root of backend folder with MONGO_DB=YOUR_MONGO_DB_URL and SECRET=YOUR_JWT_SECRET
4. This application uses MongoDB as its Database. So make sure you have it installed. You can find detailed guides on how to do so here.
5. Finally cd inside frontend and backend and run npm start
6. The frontend of the application will be automatically opened in your web browser and you can test it.