Snappy - Chat Application

Snappy is chat application build with the power of MERN Stack. You can find the tutorial here

Installation Guide

Requirements

• Nodejs
• Mongodb

Both should be installed and make sure mongodb is running.

git clone https://github.com/koolkishan/chat-app-react-nodejs
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/npm i
cd ..
cd public
yarn/npm i

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

For Frontend.

cd public
yarn/npm start

For Backend.

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

cd server
yarn/npm start

Done! Now open localhost:3000 in your browser.