Gerrit – Chat with people nearby!

For our final project as web development students at Ironhack Berlin we created a mobile web application. We decided to build a chat platform with predefined chatrooms that are only open to users in the same approximate geolocation. In other words: It lets you chat to randoms close by.

To check our deployed version, follow this link: https://justgerrit.herokuapp.com

Getting started

Prerequisites

The required packages should be installed by running the following commands:

in the root:

npm install
npm install bootstrap react-bootstrap socket.io
npm install heroku-ssl-redirect
node bin/seed

in the client folder:

npm install
npm install --save passport-local passport bcryptjs  express-session
npm install react-router-dom axios react-map-gl

Testing

To test the code run the following commands:

in the root

npm run dev

in the client folder:

npm start

Built With

• React - The web framework used
• MongoDB - Used Database
• Node.js - Our server environment

Authors

• Fabian Scherer - github
• Are W. Sandvik - github
• Noam Rubin - github

Acknowledgments

• Ironhack Berlin
• Montasar Jarraya (our teacher)
• Pierre Portal (TA)
• André de Albuquerque (TA)
• Dalina Weidinger (TA)
• Svenja Maria Katharina Weiler (TA)