Snappy is chat application build with the power of MERN Stack. You can find the tutorial here

• Nodejs
• Mongodb

Both should be installed and make sure mongodb is running.

git clone https://github.com/koolkishan/chat-app-react-nodejs cd chat-app-react-nodejs

Now rename env files from .env.example to .env

cd public mv .env.example .env cd .. cd server mv .env.example .env cd ..

Now install the dependencies

cd server yarn cd .. cd public yarn

We are almost done, Now just start the development server.

For Frontend.

cd public yarn start

For Backend.

Open another terminal in folder, Also make sure mongodb is running in background.

cd server yarn start

Done! Now open localhost:3000 in your browser.

• This method requires docker and docker-compose to be installed in your system.
• Make sure you are in the root of your project and run the following command.

docker compose build --no-cache

after the build is complete run the containers using the following command

docker compose up

now open localhost:3000 in your browser.