This simple repo shows how to easily add chat functionality into an Express project with Chat Engine.

To understand the code, please watch this video!

Make your express server support chat - in 3 steps:

Go to Chat Engine to setup your own chat server.

• Click "New Project" and follow the steps
• Your Project ID and Private Key will be required for step 2

We will connect to your Chat Engine server with environment varibles.

This allows you to connect to different chat-servers in local vs staging vs production.

Replace the UUIDs below with your own. In server/.env write:

CHAT_ENGINE_PROJECT_ID=5d498a31-cd23-42b7-b367-4fcc9463bd2f
CHAT_ENGINE_PRIVATE_KEY=49a46286-91c3-4f9c-92bf-284ae51b7628

Run the following two lines of code in server-django/.

pip install -r requirements.txt
./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:3001

Done! Your Express server is on localhost:3001 and connected to Chat Engine!

All new /signup users are on Chat Engine, and their credentiuals are found upon /login.

To understand the code, please watch this video!