socketio-messaging

This is a simple backend implementation for a real-time chatting web app using Node.js, Socket.io, and Prisma hooked to a PostgreSQL database. You can see a pairing frontend implementation in one of my other repositories.

Running the server

1. Clone this repository

2. Make sure you have npm and Node.js version 14 or higher installed

3. Install the required packages,

   npm install

4. Create a .env file in the root directory and define the following environment variables,

   • PORT: the desired port for the server
   • FRONT_END_DEPLOYMENT: the URL of your frontend app
   • DATABASE_URL: the URL of your PostgreSQL database

   Below is an example,

   PORT=8080
   FRONT_END_DEPLOYMENT="http://localhost:3000"
   DATABASE_URL="postgresql://user:password@host:port/database?schema=public"

5. Run the following to migrate the Prisma schema into your database and generate a Prisma client,

   npx prisma db push
   npx prisma generate

6. Start the server,

   npm start