Realtime Chat System

🌎 Example

https://easychats.herokuapp.com (allow 1 min to start as will idle when inactive)

Test accounts: [{[email protected], test.123}, {[email protected], test.123}]

💻 Tech

Frontend

• React
• Redux
• Websockets

Backend

• Django (DRF)
• Redis
• Channels
• Daphne
• Cors
• Whitenoise
• JWT (http only cookies)

ℹ️ Steps (manual)

• git clone [email protected]:rsleyland/ChatSystem.git

Frontend

• cd ChatSystem\frontend
• npm start
• running on localhost:3000

Backend

• cd ChatSystem\backend
• python -m venv myenv
• myenv\Scripts\activate
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• python manage.py runserver
• running on localhost:8000

Redis (must have docker installed)

• docker run -p 6379:6379 -d redis:5

ℹ️ Steps (Docker - must have docker installed)

• git clone [email protected]:rsleyland/ChatSystem.git
• cd ChatSystem
• git checkout dockered
• docker-compose build
• docker-compose-up
• backend running on localhost:8000
• frontend running on localhost:3000
• redis running on localhost:6379