Highlights:

• 🌟 Tech stack: MERN + Socket.io + TailwindCSS + Daisy UI
• 🎃 Authentication && Authorization with JWT
• 👾 Real-time messaging with Socket.io
• ⭐ with Image uploads
• 🚀 Online user status
• 👌 Global state management with Zustand
• 🐞 Error handling both on the server and on the client

Setup .env file

MONGODB_URI=...
PORT=5001
JWT_SECRET=...

CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=...
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=...
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=...

NODE_ENV=development

Build the app

npm run build

Start the app

npm start