• Sign in with Facebook and Google
• Link your social media accounts and create one account
• users can upload/edit images to their profile
• cache user avatar images for 3 days
• user can edit their nickname through the use of reusable and editable input component
• users nickname updates concurrently inside firebase storage
• Create a new chat room
• Like messages
• user online / offline status
• see messages
• send a new message
• send files to chat rooms
• send audio files and play audio files
• see room information
• role-based permissions, admin can edit room information
• broadcast message to send notification to other members
• notifications for subscribing or unsubscribing from notifications
• only the admin user of the room can edit the room information and the admin can grant permission to another user
• chats are grouped by dates
• pagination and scroll to bottom of the page when the user types a new message

• REACT SUITE UI LIBRARY and SASS
• React Context API with useContext hook to get the username for signin and registration
• Firebase Realtime database to store profiles, rooms, status of the user(online/offline) and messages
• Firebase Authentication with Facebook and Google
• Firebase Storage to store profile avatar image, chat images and audio
• useRef hook to access Canvas element for avatar image
• Firebase Cloud Functions to add realtime data and send notifications to the user
• FCM cloud functions Send messages to multiple devices
• Service Worker to get a background notification, even if the app is offline, user can get notifications.
• use-context-selector hook
• Build presence in CLoud Firestore
• useHover hook
• User avatar made with React avatar editor
• react-mic for recording audio from a user's microphone

# application
yarn install

yarn start

# runs on http://localhost:3000/

# backend
cd functions

npm install

npm start

# runs on http://localhost:4000/

The App is developed using Node v10.

1. Inside src/misc/firebase.js replace config with your firebase project config.
2. Get FCM vapid key for real-time notificaitons from Firebase dashboard > Cog icon > Project Settings > Cloud Messaging > Web push certificates > Key pair and put it as fcmVapidKey inside src/misc/firebase.js.
3. Run npm run start and develop

1. Download a service account from Firebase dashboard > Cog icon > Project Settings > Service accounts > Generate new private key.
2. Put the file as functions/service-account.json
3. Run npm run start from functions

1. Install firebase-cli by running npm install -g firebase-tools
2. Run firebase deploy