✨ Full-Stack Chat App with Auth & Emails ✨

Highlights: - 🔐 Custom JWT Authentication (no 3rd-party auth) - ⚡ Real-time Messaging via Socket.io - 🟢 Online/Offline Presence Indicators - 🔔 Notification & Typing Sounds (with toggle) - 📨 Welcome Emails on Signup (Resend) - 🗂️ Image Uploads (Cloudinary) - 🧰 REST API with Node.js & Express - 🧱 MongoDB for Data Persistence - 🚦 API Rate-Limiting powered by Arcjet - 🎨 Beautiful UI with React, Tailwind CSS & DaisyUI - 🧠 Zustand for State Management - 🧑‍💻 Git & GitHub Workflow (branches, PRs, merges) - 🚀 Easy Deployment (free-tier friendly with Sevalla) --- ## 🧪 .env Setup ### Backend (`/backend`) ```bash PORT=3000 MONGO_URI=your_mongo_uri_here NODE_ENV=development JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret RESEND_API_KEY=your_resend_api_key EMAIL_FROM=your_email_from_address EMAIL_FROM_NAME=your_email_from_name CLIENT_URL=http://localhost:5173 CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloudinary_cloud_name CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_cloudinary_api_key CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_cloudinary_api_secret ARCJET_KEY=your_arcjet_key ARCJET_ENV=development ``` --- ## 🔧 Run the Backend ```bash cd backend npm install npm run dev ``` ## 💻 Run the Frontend ```bash cd frontend npm install npm run dev ``` # chat-project # chat-project