This is a chatXo application built with Nest.js that allows two users to communicate with each other. The application supports authentication using social media accounts and provides functionality to add friends.
Check out the live demo of the application.
You can find the frontend source code in the ChatXo-frontend repository.
- User Registration and Authentication: Users can register and log in to the application using their social media accounts.
- Real-time Chat: Users can engage in real-time chat with each other, sending and receiving messages instantly.
- Friend Management: Users can add friends to their contact list and initiate chats with them.
- Last Seen Date: The application displays the last seen date of each user, indicating when they were last active.
- User Status: Users' online/offline status is shown, indicating whether they are currently active or not.
- Message Receipt: The application provides flags to indicate whether a message has been received or not.
- Social Media Authentication: Users can authenticate using popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Google, or Twitter.
- Secure Communication: The application ensures secure communication between users by using encryption and following best practices for data privacy and security.
- Nest.js: A powerful Node.js framework for building scalable and efficient server-side applications.
- Socket.IO: A library that enables real-time, bidirectional, and event-based communication between the browser and the server.
- Passport: A flexible authentication middleware for Node.js that supports social media authentication strategies.
- Mongoose: An elegant MongoDB object modeling library for Node.js.
The application uses environment variables to configure various settings. Before running the application
$ npm install# development
$ npm run start
# watch mode
$ npm run start:dev
# production mode
$ npm run start:prod