ChattyChan

ChattyChan a real-time, scalable chat application enabling users to send and receive messages instantly using modern full-stack technologies. Implemented cloud-native DevOps practices for seamless deployment, CI/CD automation, and high availability with load balancing.

Build With 🛠️

1. Frontend: React.js (with Socket.io for real-time communication)
2. Backend: Node.js + Express.js (RESTful API & Socket.io integration)
3. Database: PostgreSQL (relational structure) + Prisma ORM (type-safe queries)
4. Backend-as-a-Service: Supabase (real-time database & authentication)

Cloud/DevOps Practices ☁️

1. Git for version control
2. Docker for containerized microservices architecture
3. GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for pushing building and pushing the docker images to dockerhub
4. Jenkins CI/CD pipline for deployment.
5. AWS Cloud Platform
6. Terraform (IaC) for provisioning cloud resources on AWS
7. Kubernetes (EKS) for orchestration and auto-scaling
8. Prometheus + Grafana (monitoring, alerting, and dashboard visualization)

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Installation on Local Machine

Run the Frontend

cd frontend

npm install

npm run dev

The Frontend is build with Vite so it'll run on http://localhost:5173

Run the Backend

cd backend

npm install

npm run dev

The Backend will run on http://localhost:5001

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Installation Using Docker 🐳

Install the Docker Desktop in your local machine

Because we need Docker Engine/Daemon to run the docker containers

After cloning the repository, open the terminal in the root directory(which is chattychatn) and run the below command:

docker compose up --build

Contributing 🤝

Open to collaborations! Check out our Contributing Guidelines to get started.

License 📜

MIT Licensed. See LICENSE for details.

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