About The Project

This project is consists of a very basic chat app, where you can create accounts find other users on the main page and start chatting with them.

Live Preview

Features:

• Register
• Login
• Logout
• Start chats
• Send and receive messages
• Live notifications
• Recover lost passwords

This website features cookie authentication for security.

Built With

Those are the frameworks/libraries used to build this server.

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• PostgreSQL
• Apollo Server
• graphql-ws
• Redis
• TypeORM
• TypeGraphQL

Getting Started

In order to try this locally you you may also want to download and run the client side.

Prerequisites

To run this project you will need to do the following:

• yarn

  npm install --global yarn

• Install redis for Windows or for other operating systems
• Install PostgreSQL

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/CristianCiubancan/chat-server

2. Install packages

   yarn install

3. Edit the .env file
4. build the js version or watch for changes

   yarn watch

5. Run the server

   yarn dev