A chat app with a little bit of everything

Name TBD

TODO

Found a bug or want to request a feature? Feel free to create an issue! (template coming soon™️)

Installation

Setting up your own instance is easy (dockerfile coming soon™️)

create database indexes using the script located at api/scripts/initDb.js (well, that currently doesn’t exist)
create the file web/.env and set the VITE_API_URL environment variable
create the file api/.env and set the following environment variables:
- JWT_SECRET – random string that will be used to sign the jwt tokens (required)
- DB_URI – your mongodb instances connection string (required, defaults to localhost)
- DB_NAME – the database name to use (optional, defaults to a_chat)
- PORT – the port on which the API will listen on (optional, defaults to 5000)
- TRUST_PROXY – set it to a truthy string if the API is behind a proxy (optional, defaults to false)
- CORS_ALLOWED_DOMAINS – set it to the address of the web client (optional but should be set, otherwise the client wont be able to make requests) [can have multiple values, separated by space]
run yarn install and yarn build
start everything with yarn start

see the current roadmap for the alpha release here: https://github.com/ItsArnob/a-chat/milestone/1