README.md

Pusher & React Real-Time Chat App

This is an example chat application using React for a componentised UI and Pusher for real-time chat messages.

The UI components can be found in static/javascripts/ui_components.

The back-end uses Node.js and can be found in server.js.

Project Test Criteria

For this test project, you will modify this sample project to be written in Apollo instead of plain React. The chat websockets will be powered by Pusher.com.

For more information using Apollo subscriptions please read: http://dev.apollodata.com/react/subscriptions.html

Time limit: 2 hours

Finished project: Clone this repo and provide a link to the final solution

Example Tutorial

There is a full tutorial on building a real-time chat application with React and Pusher available.

You can see a demo here: http://pusher-chat-demo.herokuapp.com/

Running the App

You'll need a Pusher account, so signup for a free account.

$ npm install

As per: https://pusher.com/docs/server_api_guide/interact_rest_api#publishing-events

Prior to running the node app you'll need some environmental variables to be set.

• PUSHER_CHAT_APP_ID - your Pusher application ID
• PUSHER_CHAT_APP_KEY - your Pusher application key
• PUSHER_CHAT_APP_SECRET - your Pusher application secret
• PUSHER_CLUSTER - your Pusher cluster

Setting these values in a .env file:

PUSHER_CLUSTER=xxx
PUSHER_APP_ID=xxx
PUSHER_APP_KEY=xxxx
PUSHER_APP_SECRET=xxx

Then running:

$ node server.js