Chat Application created with MERN stack and Socket.IO

Installation

In the project directory, you can run: Install packages for both client and backend

npm install

Make .env file in root backend folder. It needs to have DB, SECRET, PORT.

DB=mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@cluster0-11111.mongodb.net/chatapp?retryWrites=true&w=majority
SECRET=somesecretcode
PORT=8000

Start for both client and backend

npm start

Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.