react/redux websocket example

Installation:

Note: This requires a recent version of NodeJS to work.

git clone [email protected]:maxnachlinger/react-websocket-example.git

cd react-websocket-example
cd client
npm i

cd ../server
npm i

Running this app:

# start a webpack dev watch build
cd client
npm start

# start the server
cd ../server
npm start

The app runs at http://silly-chat.localtest.me:3000

Client tests:

cd client
npm test

TODO

• Show idle users with idle times ("idle for N minutes" etc)
• Add CSS - dear God the UI is awful :)
• Allow users to edit their recent messages, but show an edit indicator by edited message to everyone else