📋 Table of Contents

1. 🤖 Introduction
2. ⚙️ Tech Stack
3. 🔋 Features
4. 🤸 Quick Start

🤖 Introduction

Quick Chat App is a real-time messaging application that allows users to communicate instantly with each other. Built with a modern tech stack, it ensures seamless and efficient communication.

⚙️ Tech Stack

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🔋 Features

👉 User Authentication: Secure signup and login functionalities to ensure user data privacy and protection.

👉 Real-time Messaging: Instantaneous message delivery and reception, providing a seamless chat experience.

👉 Read Receipts: Visual indicators to show when messages have been read by the recipient.

👉 Online Status Indicator: Real-time display of users' online or offline status, enhancing engagement.

👉 Typing Indicator: Live notifications when a contact is typing, making conversations more interactive.

👉 Profile Management: Users can create and update personal profiles, including avatars.

👉 Image Sharing in Chat: Seamless sharing of images within the chat, enriching the communication experience.

👉 Emoji Support: A wide range of emojis to express emotions and reactions within conversations.

These features collectively provide a comprehensive and engaging real-time chat application experience.

🤸 Quick Start

Follow these steps to set up the project locally on your machine.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following installed on your machine:

• Git
• Node.js
• npm (Node Package Manager)

Cloning the Repository

git clone https://github.com/debasishbihari/quick-chat-app.git
cd quick-chat-app

Installation

Install the project dependencies using npm:

cd client
npm install
cd server
npm install

Set Up Environment Variables

Create a new file named config.env in the root of server folder and add the following content:

PORT_NUMBER = 
CONN_STRING = 
SECRET_KEY = 

Replace the values with your actual credentials. You can obtain CONN_STRING by signing up & creating a new database on the MongoDB Cloud. Add a Port Number and secret key of your own.

Running the Project -For server

npm run dev

-For client

npm start