Talker

This project is a chat web application developed in NestJS and NextJS frameworks. Motive is to learn web sockets using socket.io library. User interface is not optimized for larger screens such as laptops and pc(s). Best viewed on mobile devices.

Authors

• @abhishekprajapati1

Tech Stack

Client: NextJS, Redux Toolkit, TailwindCSS, MUI, Tanstack Query, Axios, DayJS, socket.io-client

Server: NestJS with ExpressAdapter, SQLite, PrismaORM, swagger, socket.io

Features

• Contact Book
• Realtime Messaging
• Realtime User Search
• User Registration/Login
• Double Layer Authentication (REST + WS) with secure http cookies.
• JWT rotation with refresh token.

Setup & Installation (Local)

First clone the repo or download the zip file. Open the projects root directory in a terminal.

Navigate to backend directory

cd backend

Install packages

pnpm install

Run migrations and generate types

npx prisma migrate dev <name_for_migration>

Run the development server

pnpm start:dev

Or you can build and run the production server for better response

pnpm build && pnpm start

Navigate to client directory

Now open a new terminal in the root of the project download and navigate to client directory.

cd client

Install packages and dependencies

pnpm install

Run the development server

pnpm dev

Or you can build and run the production server for better response

pnpm run build && pnpm run start

That's it now you can open this url in new brower window/tab. http://localhost:3000/.

For the overview of apis you can visit http://localhost:4000/docs/. (Make sure the backend server is running)