sample-chat-app

A quick messaging application using GunDB

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sample-chat-app (with GunDB)

Viewable at https://sample-chat-app-react-gundb.herokuapp.com/

About

This is a quick example chat app utilizing React w/GunDB to handle any realtime updates and concurrency concerns. GunDB is an open source decentralized graph database - more info on it here: https://gun.eco/

To follow along with development notes and updates, I highly suggest reading the notes for each release tag.

Setup and Running

Prerequisites:

Node 10.8+ (should be safe with 8+, but run at your own risk)

Installation/Launch:

Clone this repo. Optionally, checkout your desired release tag.

git clone https://github.com/casthewiz/sample-chat-app.git

Just install dependencies with npm i, then spool up an instance locally with npm start

Usage:

Visit the application at: localhost:8080 Optionally, visit the deployed application at https://sample-chat-app-react-gundb.herokuapp.com/

Bugs/Issues

Active list of tracked bugs is available in https://github.com/casthewiz/sample-chat-app/issues

Other Notes

This is pretty hacked together, so some bugs are to be expected. If you find one, feel free to report it in the issue tracker!