Cheers Mate!

demo

Live example hosted on heroku can be found at cheersm8.tk

Talking to your friends couldn't be simpler!

It is built using the React, Express, simple-peer, and BulmaCSS.

Features

Essentially, here're some of its features:

4 Person private meeting rooms
Silent Disconnects
Clean mono-repo structure with Express Server and React Client
Copy and Paste meeting rooms
WebSockets used for peering
Pretty UI using Bulma and Styled Components
Easy deployability on Heroku

Setting Up

Recommended Tools Checklist

Git Clone this repository
Create a Heroku account
Install Node.JS
Install Yarn Package Manager

Installing Requirements

$ git clone https://github.com/mhwilkes/Cheers-Mate.git
$ cd Cheers-Mate
$ yarn setup

Configuring Enviromental Variable

Create a ".env" in "src/client", it should look like the following:

REACT_APP_API_URL="http://localhost:5000"

Running Project

$ # run both server and client
$ yarn dev
$ # run server only
$ yarn server
$ # run client only
$ yarn client

To Deploy

Deploying this project on Heroku is dead simple. Basically, go on Heroku and create a new Heroku app, connect your project Github to your new Heroku app, and hit Deploy. Note, that you will need to configure the environmental variable under settings.