Advanced Redux Messenger

Redux Messenger

Introduction

This application is a fully functional messenger application similar to Slack or HipChat. It includes the following features,

• State managed with Redux
• React-Redux view
• Selectors with Reselect
• Immutable State
• Live server updates with websockets
• Redux-Saga
• More!

How to Use This Application

• This application is meant as a reference for students completing Advanced Redux on Pluralsight
• Developers who are already familiar with the technology are welcome to copy the application and make any desired changes

Getting started

1. Clone the application,

git clone git@github.com:danielstern/advanced-redux.git

2. Install dependencies

cd advanced-redux
npm install
npm install -g babel-cli

3. Start the application

npm start

or

npm run dev 

• npm run dev is meant for development and includes file monitoring with Nodemon

4. Navigate to the application in Chrome http://localhost:9000/#

Troubleshooting the Application

Refer to the following guide if the application does not seem to be working as expected

Application not working

Before trying any of the technique below, make sure your application is correctly coded.

1. Clone this repository's master branch
2. Without making any changes to it, run with npm install and npm start

This should solve 90% of errors. If not, see below:

Correct admin priveleges (Mac only)

1. If you are using Mac, make sure that you installed Mac with Brew so that proper admin priveleges are configured

Install Global packages

Depending on your OS, NPM may have a hard time running locally installed packages from the command line. To resolve this, manually install the dependencies under devDependencies with npm install -g or use the following script:

npm install -g babel-loader@6.2.8 babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread@6.19.0 babel-preset-es2015@6.18.0 babel-preset-react@6.23.0 babel-regenerator-runtime@6.5.0 nodemon@1.11.0 webpack@1.13.3 webpack-dev-server@1.16.2 webpack-hot-middleware@2.17.1 webpack-dev-middleware@1.10.1