Flatiron Phase 4 Project - localHostChat

Description

A Rails/React app that lets you sign-up, log-in, change your profile including your color scheme, create chat rooms and interact with others. Creators of chat rooms are given admin privileges to change room colors and family rooms have a very light, built in profanity filter.

Deployed on Heroku: https://localhostchats.herokuapp.com/

Requirements

• Ruby 2.7.4
• NodeJS (v14 or higher), and npm
• Postgresql

Setup

Fork and clone this repository.

Then run:

bundle install
rails db:create
npm install --prefix client

You can use the following commands to run the application:

• rails s: run the backend on http://localhost:3000
• npm start --prefix client: run the frontend on http://localhost:4000
• rails start: run the frontend and backend together with one command

Acknowledgements

This application was created with Material UI, ActionCableProvider, React Router, as well as with Redis, ActionCable, PostgreSQL, BCrypt, and ActiveRecordSerializers. The logo was created with Canva's online tools.