Utalk

This is a chat application developed using shiny. The idea of the project was to create a non-typical shiny application, something not related to data analysis and dashboards. Deployed version

Technical highlight

1. Custom CSS to create an user interface that doesn't look like a shiny app
2. Google's Firebase for authentication and real-time database storage
3. Shiny modules
4. Sending information to R server via JS code
5. jQuery

Inspiration

Whatsapp web application

Features

1. Login and authentication
2. Persistent storage of conversations
3. Notification of new messages
4. Switch between chats

Planed features

• Creating groups
• Search contacts
• Using emojis

How to run the app locally

1. Create a firebase project, example described in this post by John Coene
2. Clone this repository and restore dependencies
3. Create the following environment variables: FIREBASE_API_KEY, FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID, FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN, FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET, FIREBASE_APP_ID, FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL, db_url, fb_key. More details here
4. Run the app