Epicodus Capstone Application

A realtime React chat application utilizing a Firebase BaaS.

• A user can sign up and create an account
• Authentication through Google
• A user can send messages in a chatroom
• A user can upload their own Avatar
• Realtime chat with real people

• Firestore
• React
• React hooks
• React Firebase Hooks
• Bootstrap
• Love and support from Epicodus peers

If you just want to checkout the app, visit the live site here

You will need...

1. Code Editor Download:
   • Option 1: Atom
   • Option 2: VisualStudio Code
2. A Google Account
3. A Firebase Account and a Firebase project
4. In Firebase console, add firestore database and enable Google Authentication
5. Copy the values from your firebase project config into the .env file

Clone project to desktop.

git clone https://github.com/taylulz/chat-capstone.git

Open project.

code chat-capstone

Install Dependencies

npm install

View Project

npm start

• Avatar upload completes, but doesn't tell you it's done

I would like to connect with people to continue learning and building. Please feel free to email me [email protected]

This project is licensed under the MIT License. Copyright (C) 2021 Taylor Delph. All Rights Reserved.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Taylor Delph.

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• Alternatives to Google authentication
• User can send voice message using default system microphone (or file upload)
• Speech-to-text message
• Utilize an encryption library
• A user can send/accept friend requests
• Elegant style 😎 material ui?
• Send a kitty cube
• Either SoX or tonejs to access microphone and save audio
• Google Speech-to-Text API for transcription services (free 60min/mo)
• Encryption Libraries, one for Native: Crypto-js