messenger-app

Messenger application prototype builded with <3 and Javascript

Our Stack

• Nodejs
• Feathers js
• MongoDB
• React js
• Browserify
• Bootstrap
• Docker

Requirements

You'll need the following software installed to get started.

• Node.js: Use the installer for your OS.
• Git: Use the installer for your OS.
  • Windows users can also try Git for Windows.
• Bowserify : Run npm install -g browserify watchify
  • Depending on how Node is configured on your machine, you may need to run sudo npm install -g browserify watchify instead, if you get an error with the first command.
• Yeoman Run npm install -g yo generator-feather
  • Depending on how Node is configured on your machine, you may need to run sudo npm install -g yo generator-feather

Get Started

Clone this repository

git clone git@github.com:nmarcetic/messenger-app.git

Change into the directory.

cd messenger-app

Install the dependencies. If you're running Mac OS or Linux, you may need to run sudo npm install instead, depending on how your machine is configured.

npm install

To start the server, run:

npm start

This will run and assemble our app. Now go to localhost:3030 in your browser to see it in action.

Docker

The application is not yet fully containerized, docker-compose is responsible to spin our composition, for now we just run MongoDB container to avoid installing MongoDB on local env.

docker-compose up -d

Client code

Since we use power of browserify to split our client code in modules, like we do with nodejs, we must build client side code running the compiling process, without watching any files, use the npm run build command . You can check public/build/ folder for app.js output (contains all our client side code with all bundles).

Note When you change any client side file located under /public/src/ you must run npm run build command to apply the changes (e.g rebuild the code).

Live reload coming soon

Since we use watchify which is watch mode for browserify builds, we can also watch for our source files changes runing npm run watch. Note Use this only on local env for development purpose.

Server code

Each changes, requires server reload, stop the server ctrl+c and run npm start again.