This repository contains the backend API server for ChatSphere application. For more detailed information about the project, including frontend setup, please refer to the main repository here.
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First, you should have nodejs, and npm installed
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Second, add the
.envfile in the root directory with these variables
NODE_ENV=development
PORT=5000
DEV_CLIENT_URL=http://localhost:3000
PROD_CLIENT_URL=
# Get a MongoDB URI from https://cloud.mongodb.com
MONGODB_URI=
EMAIL=
# if you use Gmail you should use the Gmail App Passwords https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords not the original password
EMAIL_PASSWORD=
# A random string. should match with JWT_SECRET in the fontend
JWT_SECRET=
JWT_EXPIRE=30d
# Firebase config
APIKEY=
AUTHDOMAIN=
PROJECTID=
STORAGEBUCKET=
MESSAGINGSENDERID=
APPID=
MAX_PHOTO_SIZE=1048576
MAX_FILE_SIZE=10485760
MAX_IMAGE_SIZE=10485760
MAX_VIDEO_SIZE=52428800- Last step, install the dependencies and run the development server:
npm install && npm run dev
# or
yarn install && yarn dev
# or
pnpm install && pnpm dev- To populate the DB with samples data run the below script
npx ts-node src/seeder i
# or
yarn ts-node src/seeder i
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pnpm ts-node src/seeder i