Connect React to Chat Engine!

This simple repo shows how to easily add chat functionality into a React project with Chat Engine.

To understand the code, please watch this video!

Setup Steps

Setup this chat client in 3 steps below.

These steps assume you have already setup one of the server projects in ../server-* (for example, server-express).

1 - Setup a Chat Engine server

Go to Chat Engine to setup your own chat server.

• Click "New Project" and follow the steps
• Your Project ID and Private Key will be required for step 2

2 - Connect .env to Chat Engine

We will connect to your Chat Engine server with environment varibles.

This allows you to connect to different chat-servers in local vs staging vs production.

Replace the UUID below with your own. In .env write:

REACT_APP_CHAT_ENGINE_PROJECT_ID=5d498a31-cd23-42b7-b367-4fcc9463bd2f

3 - Install & Start

Run the following two lines of code in client-react/.

npm install
npm run start

Done! Your Express server is on localhost:3000 and connected to Chat Engine!

All new "Sign Up" users are on Chat Engine, and their credentiuals are found upon "Login".

To understand the code, please watch this video!