YouChat

YouChat is a chat appication that makes it easy to communicate with people anywhere in the world by sending and receiving messages in real time. It is built with react, react router and firebase.

Technology stack

• React
• Firebase
• Netlify (deployment)

Dependencies

1. React moment (date formatter)
2. React router (routing)

Getting started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The following software is required to be installed on your system:

• Node
• Npm

Type the following commands in the terminal to verify your node and npm versions

npm -v
node -v

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/Seundede/chat-application.git
cd chat application

2. Install the dependencies

npm install

3. Create a new firebase project on firebase.com

4. Create a firebase.js and update your firebase configuration

const firebaseConfig = {
  apiKey:
  authDomain: 
  databaseURL: 
  projectId: 
  storageBucket: 
  messagingSenderId:
  appId: 
};

5. Start the development server

npm start

6. This will open the website in your browser on http://localhost:3000