Strapi application

This application is built with Strapi and is using socket.io library for instant communication between the client and server. It contains the backend logic for starpi-chat-ui repo.

This application is deployed on Heroku. Here is the link for you to play around.

Prerequites to run this app:

• Install Nodejs

• Install MongoDB

• Fork and clone the repo git clone git@github.com:strapi-blog/strapi-chat-ui.git. Follow these steps to run the server.

• Fork and clone the repo git clone git@github.com:strapi-blog/strapi-chat-backend.git

• Install dependencies by running npm install

• If MongoDB is running locally:

  • Create an .env file and create DATABASE_URI variable with mongodb url.

  DATABASE_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/strapi-socket-backend

  • Go to /config/database.js file, change ssl to false
  • Start the strapi server npm start

• If MongoDB is running on Cloud:

  • Follow this tutorial to create your mongodb atlas account and create your first collection.

  • Change your DATABASE_URI url which mongodb atlas provides inside .env file

  • Change ssl value to true

  • Run your server npm start

If you have any questions/suggestions, reach out to me on my email purnimaguptapccs@gmail.com