Snappy - Chat Application

Snappy is a full-stack chat application built with the power of MERN Stack.

Installation Guide

Requirements

• Nodejs
• Mongodb

Both should be installed, and ensure MongoDB is running.

Installation

First Method

git clone https://github.com/aritrikg/Snappy_ChatApp.git
cd chat-app-react-nodejs

Now rename env files from .env.example to .env

cd public
mv .env.example .env
cd ..
cd server
mv .env.example .env
cd ..

Now install the dependencies

cd server
yarn
cd ..
cd public
yarn

We are almost done. Now just start the development server.

For Frontend.

cd public
yarn start

For Backend.

Open another terminal in folder. Also, make sure MongoDB is running in the background.

cd server
yarn start

Done! Now open localhost:3000 in your browser.

Second Method

• This method requires Docker and Docker Compose to be installed in your system.
• Make sure you are in the root of your project and run the following command.

docker compose build --no-cache

After the build is complete run the containers using the following command

docker compose up

Now open localhost:3000 in your browser.