Real Time Chat 🍪

A real time chat built with React, Express, Docker/Docker Compose, and love.

This uses Docker to build/run the client and api on two seperate images. Clients are paired in chat together sequentially; i.e. client 0 and client 1, client 2 and client 3, and so forth.

UI

Goals of this repo

• [x] Learn Docker
• [x] Practice using websockets with a real time chat
• [x] Implement postgresql

Installation/Running

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/Chrischuck/websocket-docker-example.git

Enter the directory:

cd websocket-docker-example

Build Docker images:

docker-compose build

Run Docker images:

docker-compose up

Now open up your favorite web browser and navigate to `localhost:5008'. Each new window will be a new client.