This project was made initially for practicing and gaining experience in implementing an online chat feature into a full application. Since then, it has evolved into it's own full stack web application.

• Create a REST API that allows for full CRUD operations on users, messages and group chats
• Add sending multiple filetypes in chats
• Implement app customization- changing message bubble colors, font size and background theme through settings.
• Create working search bar that filters through created usernames
• Display sent messages to users with minimal delay using WebSocket API

• Global chat
• Direct messaging
• Group chats
• Add friends
• Customize your theme
• Chat filter

There may be many bugs as this is still in development

1. Clone this project
2. Inside the client folder, install dependencies with the command - npm install
3. Inside the server folder, install dependencies with the command - npm install
4. Optional: Inside the server folder, create .env file - Add PORT= any port you'd like to use and MONGODB_URI= the link to your mongoDB server
5. Run npm start in the client folder and nodemon server.js in the server folder to start the application on http://localhost:3000/

JavaScript, MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js, HTML, CSS