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MERN WhatsApp Clone

MERN Whats App Clone

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Work on the project locally

In order to work and run the project locally you need NodeJs and npm installed on your system. Perform the following steps:

 $ git clone https://github.com/aryanmonger20/MERN-Whatsapp-clone

 $ cd whatsapp

 $ npm install

 $ npm start

After running this commands, open up your favorite browser (if it doesn't open automatically which usually will happen) and go to http://localhost:3000.

Git Workflow for Contribution

Fork first 🍴

We use the fork approach for collaboration. Fork the repository first and sync it with the original repository.

Steps to keep the local version up-to-date 🔄

Inital setup 🛫

• Clone your forked version git clone <UrlToTheForKedVersion>

• Update the remote Url in order to sync your fork with the original repo git remote add upstream https://github.com/aryanmonger20/WeatherApp.git or by using ssh git remote add upstream git@github.com:aryanmonger20/WeatherApp.git

• Verify that all urls are in place git remote -v this should give you a output like this

    origin  https://github.com/username/master-the-event-loop.git (fetch)
    origin  https://github.com/username/master-the-event-loop.git (push)
    upstream https://github.com/aryanmonger20/WeatherApp.git (fetch)
    upstream https://github.com/aryanmonger20/WeatherApp.git (push)
  

Keep the local repository up-to-date & change into a different branch like dev branch 🔄

Before starting to work on the files

• Get the latest version of the dev branch git pull upstream dev

• Get the latest version of the master branch git pull upstream master

• Make sure that you made your changes always in the dev branch.

• Check in which branch you currently are git branch Then you will see something like this:

  * dev
  master
  

• If you are not in the dev branch switch to the dev branch git checkout dev

• Start hacking 💻

Keep the remote repository (forked version) up-to-date 🔄

• Get the latest version of the dev branch git pull upstream dev
• Get the latest version of the master branch git pull upstream master
• Push the new files to your forked version git push origin dev

Creating PRs 🆕

In order to tell us which changes you want to make in our project, push your changes to your fork to the for example dev branch and create a pull request to the original repository. This makes sure that we always have a working and stable master branch after we tested your changes. If we made our tests and the dev branch is stable, we will merge the dev branch into the master branch without closing the dev branch.

In order to make a PR on Github, follow this steps:

• Add your files for staging with git add . for adding all files or git add <path/to/filename> for adding specific files
• Commit your changes git commit -m "commit message"
• Push your changes to the forked version git push origin dev
• Move over to your github page and click on "Make pull request"

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.