Real-Time Chat Application 🚀

A real-time chat web application that allows users to join chat rooms, send messages, upvote messages, and dynamically prioritize important conversations based on upvotes.

🌟 Features

• ✅ Users can join a chat room and send messages in real-time
• ✅ Upvote chat messages to highlight important discussions
• ✅ Medium priority section for messages with more than 10 upvotes
• ✅ High priority section for messages with more than 15 upvotes
• ✅ Admin alerts triggered for high-priority messages

🛠️ Tech Stack

• 💻 Frontend: React.js (TypeScript)

• 🌐 Backend: Node.js with TypeScript

• 🔗 Real-time Communication: WebSocket

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🧑‍💻 How to Run the Project

🔧 Option 1: Run Without Docker

Make sure you have Node.js (v18 or higher) installed on your machine.

Frontend

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the frontend folder:

   cd frontend

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Start the development server:

   npm run dev

4. The frontend will start on http://localhost:5173

Backend

1. Open a new terminal and navigate to the server folder:

   cd server

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Start the backend server:

   npm run dev

4. The backend will start on http://localhost:3000

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🐳 Option 2: Run With Docker (Recommended)

Make sure you have Docker and Docker Compose installed.

1. In the root of the project (where docker-compose.yaml is located), build and start the containers:

   docker-compose up --build

2. Access the app:

   • Frontend: http://localhost:5173
   • Backend API: http://localhost:3000

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