API Upgrade

Read a bit more about RESTful APIs and made mine better.

Now, the messages get pagination, so frontend doesn’t need to store all messages from all chats, it can load only parts of the information it needs.

A lot of stuff

Changed UI completely (I hate css, even tailwind css ), so it looks more useful, and there are even several channels!!! (this is kinda similar to discord or slack)

Also learned a lot of things about react (like hooks) and express. Btw, it is pretty fun!

Some stuff

Made accounts actually useful. Now, the username is shown before the message.

Yes, I spent 4 hours on just adding authors to the messages🥀

It took so long, because I was paranoid about the security of my app and couldn’t decide where to check for the user’s identity.

A simple chat

I added the MongoDB part to my project, where I store my users (I mean, will store :ppp) and messages. Of course, nothing is encrypted for now (passwords are hashed though), but I will fix it soon.

Just Chat

I want to build some type of the chatting website (like telegram or discord) just to learn a bit more about MERN tech stack.

What I plan to add:

• Accounts
• Text, image messages
• Channels
• DMs

First implementation

As of right now, I have made a simple chat with socket.io, which works, but there is no chat history or even usernames.