preview/rundown:

• this project was coded in vs code react: it is a chatting website/application where online users can sign in through google, join any chatroom, and interact with other users that have joined the chatroom.
• heavy backend project, hence the lack of gui and styles
• followed pedrotech's tutorial on coding a "react firebase realtime chat app"
• this project was especially valuable to me because while i had learned how to utilize firebase in my previous flutter project (w dart), i had a gained a clearer understanding of it through this one. previously, i could not imagine myself reusing firebase (my initial encounter with it was very confusing), but now that i have reference code here and a better mental understanding, i do intend to integrate this more commonly into my future projects.

goals/new tasks:

• next time instead of solely relying on google authentication, i want to include authentication through email/password
• practice frontend
• grow a deeper understanding of useEffect and useState