A realtime chat built using Express, React, and Pusher. Live demo coming soon.
Realtime Chat is a work in progress. That means
- there are more features to come (most notably, channel user lists via presence channels) and,
- refactoring is imminent 😉
If you want to run Realtime Chat locally, you'll first need to clone the Git repository and install the project dependencies:
git clone https://github.com/alexbooker/pusher-realtime-chat.git
cd pusher-realtime-chat
npm install
Next, you'll want to set some environment variables.
Now, you could set each environment variable by hand, but I recommend that you instead create a local .env file for the server to parse. Here's an example .env file (.env.example):
PUSHER_APP_ID=YOUR_PUSHER_APP_ID
PUSHER_KEY=YOUR_PUSHER_KEY
PUSHER_SECRET=YOUR_PUSHER_SECRET
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=YOUR_TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=YOUR_TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
TWITTER_CALLBACK_URL=YOUR_TWITTER_CALLBACK
DB_SCHEMA=YOUR_MYSQL_SCHEMA_NAME
DB_USERNAME=YOUR_MYSQL_USERNAME
DB_PASSWORD=YOUR_MYSQL_PASSWORD
SESSION_SECRET=SECRET_WITH_WHICH_TO_SIGN_SESSION_COOKIE
You should create your own .env file in the project root and replace the above placeholder values with your own credentials (attainable from Twitter and Pusher).
Once you've done all that, you should be able to run server using the npm run start command:
npm run start
Server listening on port 3000 in dev mode
webpack built <some_hash> in <x_seconds>