iMessage Clone

Realtime Chat App (iMessage Clone) with NextJS, GraphQL, NodeJS, MongoDB, Prisma, TypeScript, NextAuth.js, Google Authentication, Chakra UI, (1-1 Messaging, Real Time Messaging, Creating chat conversation, joining chat conversation, Leaving chat conversation).

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📔 Table of Contents

• About the Project
  • Screenshots
  • Tech Stack
  • Environment Variables
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Run Locally
  • Deployment
• Contact

🌟 About the Project

📷 Screenshots

• Google Authentication using Next Auth

• Searching & Creating chat conversation

• 1-1 Messaging, Real Time Messaging & joining chat conversation

• 1-1 Messaging, Real Time Messaging & joining chat conversation

• Leaving chat conversation

👾 Tech Stack

Client

• Typescript
• Next.js
• React.js
• Chakra UI
• Prisma
• Apollo

Backend

• MongoDB
• Prisma
• Apollo

🧰 Getting Started

‼️ Prerequisites

• Sign up for a MongoDB account HERE
• Install Node JS in your computer HERE

🔑 Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

Frontend

NEXTAUTH_URL

NEXTAUTH_SECRET

GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID

GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET

NODE_ENV

MONGODB_URI

NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL

Backend

CLIENT_ORIGIN

MONGODB_URI

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

⚙️ Installation

Install my-project with npm

npx create-next-app@latest --ts my-project

cd my-project

Install dependencies

In your Next.js project, install Chakra UI

Installation

In your Next.js project, install Chakra UI by running either of the following:

npm i @chakra-ui/react @emotion/react@^11 @emotion/styled@^11 framer-motion@^6

Provider Setup After installing Chakra UI, you need to set up the ChakraProvider at the root of your application.

Go to pages/_app.js or pages/_app.tsx (create it if it doesn't exist) and wrap the Component with the ChakraProvider:

// pages/_app.js
import { ChakraProvider } from "@chakra-ui/react";

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  return (
    <ChakraProvider>
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </ChakraProvider>
  );
}

export default MyApp;

🔷 Customizing theme & More

Install dependencies

🔶 Dependency Info (Backend) 🔶 Dependency Info (Frontend)

🏃 Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/SashenJayathilaka/iMessage-Clone.git

change directory

  cd iMessage-Clone

Install dependencies

Frontend & Backend

cd backend
&
cd frontend

  npm install

Start the server

Frontend & Backend

cd backend
&
cd frontend

  npm run dev

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This is a Next.js project bootstrapped with create-next-app.

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Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

You can start editing the page by modifying pages/index.js. The page auto-updates as you edit the file.

API routes can be accessed on http://localhost:3000/api/hello. This endpoint can be edited in pages/api/hello.js.

The pages/api directory is mapped to /api/*. Files in this directory are treated as API routes instead of React pages.

Learn More

To learn more about Next.js, take a look at the following resources:

• Next.js Documentation - learn about Next.js features and API.
• Learn Next.js - an interactive Next.js tutorial.

You can check out the Next.js GitHub repository - your feedback and contributions are welcome!

🚩 Deployment

To deploy this project run

Deploy on Vercel

The easiest way to deploy your Next.js app is to use the Vercel Platform from the creators of Next.js.

Check out our Next.js deployment documentation for more details.

🤝 Contact

Sashen - @twitter_handle - [email protected]

Project Link: https://github.com/SashenJayathilaka/iMessage-Clone.git