github.com/jetlum/chat-app

Learn How to Develop Realtime Web Apps

Get ahead of the curve and learn how to make realtime apps now, using the following cool technologies:

React - Facebook's Open-Source Javascript Library for building user interfaces

Go - Googles New Open-Source programming language that's great for Realtime apps

RethinkDB - A cool, new Open-Source database for the realtime web

#Feel free to contribute

Feature Suggestions

-Clientside Error Messages

-Editing/Deleting Messages

-Private Messaging

-Authentication with JWT's

Install npm

$ npm install --save-dev

Install Babel CLI locally by running:

$ npm install --save-dev babel-cli

Install and add webpack to the package.json with:

$ npm install webpack --save-dev

Run

$ webpack-dev-server

Open http://localhost:8080/ and try it(Just for the front-end). Use webpack-dev-server --port 3000 cause RethinkDB takes the port :8080

RethinkDB

Download RethinkDB now available for Windows too and write queries with REQL-RethinkDB Query Language