<tea time>

Tea Time is a personal project and my take on creating a live chat application that features servers, channels and live messaging.

Features

• Servers

  • Create new servers
  • Edit existing servers
  • Delete existing servers
  • An explore page for every server where you can freely join

• Channels

  • Create a new text channel in a server
  • Edit an existing channel
  • Delete an existing channel

• Live messaging

  • Ability to send live messages in a server/channel

Technologies Used

• Python
• Flask
• SQLAlchemy
• Sqlite3
• AWS
• Sockets
• React
• Redux
• Html5
• Css
• Git
• Javascript

Setting up the application

• Open up a terminal and navigate to the folder you would like the files to be in
• Type git clone then hit space and paste the url "git clone https://github.com/henrytamm/tea-time" into your terminal and press enter
• Make a .env file in the root folder '/tea-time/.env' and copy paste the following code or copy the .env.example file:

      SECRET_KEY=lkasjdf09ajsdkfljalsiorj12n3490re9485309irefvn,u90818734902139489230
      DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///dev.db
      SCHEMA=flask_schema
      S3_BUCKET=<your bucket name>
      S3_KEY=<Access key Id>
      S3_SECRET=<Secret access key>

• Navigate to frontend folder called '/tea-time/react-app' through your terminal and type "npm install" then press enter
• Navigate to root folder called '/yell' through your terminal and type "python --version" then press enter to check your current version of python
• Run the following command replacing 3.9.4 with your version number of python: pipenv install --python "$PYENV_ROOT/versions/3.9.4/bin/python"
• Then run this command: pipenv install -r requirements.txt
• Navigate to root folder through your terminal and type "pipenv shell" then press enter, then run: "flask db upgrade", "flask seed all", "flask run" and your backend should now be started
• Open a separate terminal and navigate to your frontend folder then type "npm start" to start your frontend