Wildy - A Full Stack Chat Application

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How To Use

How to run?

• Go to the backend folder, and run install_deps.bat to install all the dependencies.
• Then navigate into the src folder, and run run.bat. It will start an express API server on localhost:5000
• Go to the frontend folder, and run install_deps.bat to install all the dependencies.
• Edit config.json in the folder to suit your needs, and finally, run run.bat to start the frontend server.
• Enjoy :)

How to deploy API?

• Download the heroku CLI
• Download Git (Make sure to 'add to PATH')
• Once downloaded, open up your terminal and type heroku login
• Make a new file called Procfile (with no extension) and in that file, type web: node index.js
• Make sure to change the port of your express API to process.env.PORT
• You must have the node_modules folder when deploying.
• Open a new terminal and navigate to the directory with the API in it.
• Type git init
• Type git add .
• Type git commit -m "{anything you want, or you could just leave this as is}"
• Type heroku create or heroku create {any name you would like to choose}
• Finally, type git push heroku main, if that doesn't work type git push heroku master

How to deploy on Railway (much better option)

Simply click the button below