This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.
This repo is the frontend companion to my Ruby on Rails server, found here. The main branch is configured for local development, the netlify branch is a live demo hosted on Netlify
- Login/logout/signup with auth via JWT
- Ability to create new conversations and add participants from user list
- Send and receive messages in real time via Websockets/ActionCable from Rails API
- Delete conversations and included messages
- HTTPS and WSS by default
- React 16.13.1
- Create-react-app
- React Router
- React Hooks
- JWT authorization
- ActionCable/WebSockets
- Token expiration
- Offload conversation creation to channel, rather than a POST
- Offload conversation deletion to channel, rather than a POST
- Redux store to streamline props
- Online status indicator
- Contact list instead of list of all users
- Captcha or other bot-detection at signup
- OTA encryption of messages and user data
This project is heavily based on an earlier group project called FlatChat. Many thanks to John Souza and Jazz Bozner for their contributions!