Tantan is a chat application that implements most of the features one would expect ranging from image uploads to gifs to emojis.
- Send real-time messages with a friend, or find users to chat with
- Choose to send text messages, images under 2mb, or gifs
- Chat with more than one user at a time with group chat
- Customize your group chat name or avatar
Create an .env file in the client folder, and enter fields as such:
VITE_SERVER_URL = [base url for your server here]
VITE_TENOR_API_KEY = [api key from google cloud console]
VITE_TENOR_CLIENT_KEY = [custom client key you make up]
Then, create an .env file in the server folder, and input your API key as such:
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME = [cloud name provided by cloudinary]
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY = [your cloudinary api key]
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET = [your cloudinary api secret]
CLIENT_URL = [base url of client]
PORT = [port you want server to run on]
SESSION_SECRET = [custom secret for sessions]
PGHOST=[postgres host name]
PGUSER=[postgres user]
PGDATABASE=[name of postgres database]
PGPASSWORD=[password for postgres user]
PGPORT=[port postgres is running on]
Clone the repo and install through your method of choice.
$ git clone https://github.com/justinpv98/tantan-chat.git
$ cd tantan-chat
$ npm install
Run a development server.
$ cd client
$ npm run dev
$ cd server
$ npm run dev
Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome.
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.