Real-time Chat with SSE (Server Sent Events) with React

This is an example application which uses vanilla Server Sent Events for real-time chat implementation without web sockets and long looping. Client is built with React and Chakra-UI

Install

Important note: This app can only run on node v14.15.4 or higher.

npm install to install server dependencies cd client && npm install to install client dependencies

Dev

npm run dev to run server on port 4000 and react client on port 3000 (concurrently)

Or npm run server and npm run client in two different terminals.

Build

npm run build to build the react client

Production

npm start - this will start the Express server (without nodemon), and also serve the React client build.

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