react-chat

Realtime anonymous chat with websockets using Node.js, Express and Socket.io

Getting Started

To start the development server install all dependencies at the root and client folder

Once installed run the following to start the local dev environment

yarn dev

Connecting to a shared chat

The chat uses query string parameters to connect to a shared chat. To connect add params for username and chatId to the url where chatId is the shared instance of the chat

http://[BaseURL]/?username=[userName]&chatId=[chatId]

Demo

https://browser-chat.herokuapp.com/?username=User1&chatId=123456

Tooling

Technologies used to scaffold this page:

• React
• Typescript
• Styled Components
• Webpack
• Prettier
• RTL/Jest