LambChat Application

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Introduction

This is an application developed primarily to utilize Firebase authentication. After signing in using Google or Facebook, the user is prompted to create a chat with other users. Created using React-Chat-Engine to offer Realtime Chat functionality.

Setup

• Create .env file in the root directory

REACT_APP_CHAT_ENGINE_KEY=(YOUR_CHAT_ENGINE_KEY)
REACT_APP_CHAT_ENGINE_ID=(YOUR_CHAT_ENGINE_ID)

• Navigate to /src and create a firebase.js file

import firebase from 'firebase/app'
import 'firebase/auth'

/* 
   This can be more easily obtained by creating a project in Firebase, then navigating to the project settings
   From there, in 'general' scroll down until you see SDK setup and configuration
   Select 'Config' and copy/paste the code given
*/

export const auth = firebase.initializeApp({
  apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
  authDomain: "YOUR_AUTH_DOMAIN",
  projectId: "YOUR_PROJECT_ID",
  storageBucket: "YOUR_STORAGE_BUCKET",
  messagingSenderId: "YOUR_MESSAGE_SENDER_ID",
  appId: "YOUR_APP_ID",
  measurementId: "YOUR_MEASUREMENT_ID"
}).auth()

• run npm i && npm start