Boris Skok

Realtime chat

Project Overview

This project is a simple realtime chat applications which was created using React, Express and most importantly Socket.io which is a great and simple library to create websockets for realtime applications. It allows you to create a room and join it as separate users (via separate tabs or computers if app would be hosted).
See example down below.

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Gained experience

Thanks to this project I have learnt how to implement realtime applications via sockets and grasped a basic idea how chats in real-world applications could be implemented.

Tools Used

React
React hooks
Javascript
Socket.io
Express
Styled-components