Full-stack real-time chat

• Data: PostgeSQL managed by Supabase @supabase_io (awsome real-time API).
• Front-end: React + Vite
• UI library: chakra-ui @chakra_ui
• Hosting: Netlify
• Country flags from Flagpedia

Install

npm install to setup dependencies

Supabase variables

Create a .env file with VITE_SUPABASE_URL and VITE_SUPABASE_KEY (see env.example)

Setup your Supabase project

The following database table is required:

Field	Type
id	BIGINT
username	VARCHAR
text	TEXT
country	VARCHAR
is_authenticated	BOOLEAN
timestamp	timestamp

SQL query if not using the Supabase interface:

CREATE TABLE messages (
  id bigint GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
  username VARCHAR NOT NULL,
  text TEXT NOT NULL,
  country VARCHAR,
  is_authenticated BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE,
  timestamp timestamp default now() NOT NULL
);

Note: If you're using Supabase interface, don't forget to tick Enable Realtime setting after you created the table.

Setup GitHub authentication (optional)

Follow instrunction here

Dev

npm run dev to run server on port 3000

Build

npm run build to build the react client

Demo

https://random-chat.netlify.app