yet-another-chat-app

I made this to learn React and play with websockets.

TODO List

• Basic chat room functionality
• Basic message history retrieveal
• Basic message history persistence
• Basic UI
• Multi-room support
• Username conflict detection
• DM support
• Better UI
  • Proper home page
  • Light / Dark theme
    • Settings page
    • Username
    • Hide join/part messages
• Real-time redis persistence
• Backend code organization
• Backend sharding

Running

With Docker

$ docker compose up -d

Dev mode

$ docker compose up --watch --build

Directly

Frontend

$ npm start

Backend

$ (cd ./server && npm start)

Database

$ docker run --rm -p 6379:6379 redis