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Hackathon team formation webapp. Features a real-time chat and swipe feature to find potential teammates.

Contributions welcome!

Technologies

  • React and React Router for frontend
  • Express and Node for the backend
  • MongoDB for the database
  • Mongoose, an ODM to represent our mongodb based on our defined schema.
  • Socket.IO to enable realtime chat between users
  • Redis to allow multiple instances of the chat server to talk to each other, ensuring chat doesn't break when we deploy to prod.

Installation

Configuration

Utilize the .env.example file, and create two .env's one in your client directory, the other in your default-service directory. Remember that the client version must be called .env.local. Ask Adi/Pranay for the AWS credentials.

Quick Start

You need to also install redis and mongo and start them as a service. On MacOS this is done with brew services and on Linux it is done with systemctl.

cd default-service
# Install dependencies for server & client
npm install && npm run client-install


# Run client & api server & chat server with concurrently
npm run dev

The api server runs on http://localhost:5002, the chat server runs on http://localhost:5003, and client on http://localhost:3000.

Inspecting Redis:

# Connect to the redis instance
redis-cli

# Listen into any socket.io messages flowing through the redis instance.
PSUBSCRIBE socket.io*

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