A Simple ChatApp, built with Django and ReactJs.

 

Included features:

• 💬 Chat
• 🔴 Online/Offline friends status
• 🔡 "Is typing..." status
• 🐇 Random profile picture generation
• 👨👩 User Creation and Update
• 🔒 Authentication and Permission

Tech Stack:

• 🐍 Python 3.11
• 📔 Sqlite
• 🎯 Redis for caching
• ⚡ Django Channels for chat and online status
• 🔑 Token Base Authentication
• 🐳 Docker + docker-compose to ease deployment and development

Deploy on your local machine with Docker

Open a shell and clone this repository:
https://github.com/BhuwanPandey/chatapp-fullstack.git

Navigate inside project docker folder:
cd chatapp-compose

Start all services:
docker compose up -d --build (Run this one time of creation)

 

Later you can use: docker compose up After,visit at localhost:3000

Locally without Docker

For Backend

create virtual enviroment
python -m venv env
cd env/scripts ./activate (For Window)
source env/bin/activate  (For Linux)
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py runserver
visit at localhost:8000  

For Frontend

Change directory
cd chat-frontend
npm install
create .env add
REACT_APP_BACKEND_API=
REACT_APP_CHAT_API=
npm start
visit at localhost:3000

Note

This product isnot eligible for Production use, Here are the reason

• It used sqlite as database
• It didnot include testcases
• Still there are lot of validation Required
• Website isnot fully responsive

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