Chatify

Link to FrontEnd

Link to backend

What is it?

• Chatify is a free community chat application built after a model of Slack.

Motivation?

• Recreate a known application in a stack not taught by Lambda.
• Provide users a fun way to communicate with each other.
• Practice creating a mid level project from the ground up.

How to install and Run?

Chatify requires you to create your own environmental files and variables to run.

• Fork and clone this repository
• Run the command yarn install to install all required dependencies.
• Run knex migrate:latest to roll all migrations.
• In the root of the project add a .env file with the following variables.
  • SECRETORKEY=[STRING]
    • This will be a passport secret key generated by you
  • jwtSECRET=[STRING]
    • This will be a jsonwebtoken secret string generated by you
  • MONGODB_URI=[STRING]
    • MONGODB_URI defaults to mongodb://localhost:27017/[name of cluster]
  • HOST=[SERVER URI]
• In the react client root add a .env.development file with the following variable.
  • REACT_APP_SERVER_URL=[http://localhost:9000] this will need to be changed to your server URL on deployement
• run yarn dev
• The site will compile both server side and client side and open in your browser.