README.md

React Horizon Demo

A demo realtime chat application created using React, Redux and Horizon/RethinkDB

Note: This is just an experimental project

What’s Inside?

It is a simple chat application build on top of React and RethinkDB/Horizon and many amazing community projects, such as:

• create-react-app with its dependencies.
• React
• Redux
• Horizon/RethinkDB
• Express
• and more.

Installation

• Install npm packages

  npm install

• Install RethinkDB and Horizon
• Init Horizon

  hz init

Build and run the server

Start rethinkdb

rethinkdb

RethinkDB Administration Console: http://localhost:8080.

Build server app

npm run build-server

Run server app

• Development

node ./build/server.js

• Production

NODE_ENV=production node ./build/server.js

The default server address is http://localhost:8181. You can change the setting in the src/config.js

Build and run the client app

Development

npm start

Visit http://localhost:3000 to see the result. You can test it in different browser instances.

Production

npm run build

Contributing

Contributions are welcome.