Building a Real-Time Chat App with React & Appwrite Cloud
Real-time chat apps have become an essential part of our daily lives. Whether it’s to communicate with friends and family or collaborate with colleagues, having a seamless real-time chat experience is crucial. In this article, we’ll show you how to build a real-time chat app using React and Appwrite Cloud.
What is Appwrite Cloud?
Appwrite Cloud is a modern open-source backend server software stack aimed at making developers’ lives easier. It includes a variety of easy-to-use APIs and a robust set of tools to build and manage web and mobile apps. With features like database storage, user authentication, cloud functions, and real-time communication, Appwrite Cloud is a great choice for building real-time chat apps.
Getting Started
To get started, make sure you have Node.js and npm installed on your machine. Create a new React app using the following command:
npx create-react-app real-time-chat-app
Change into the newly created directory:
cd real-time-chat-app
Install Appwrite JavaScript SDK:
npm install appwrite
Building the Real-Time Chat App
Once we have our React app set up and the Appwrite SDK installed, we can start building the real-time chat app. We’ll need to set up user authentication, create chat rooms, and implement real-time messaging.
User Authentication
With Appwrite, user authentication is a breeze. You can easily set up email/password or OAuth authentication using the Appwrite SDK. Once the user is authenticated, we can create and join chat rooms.
Creating Chat Rooms
Using Appwrite Cloud Functions, we can create chat rooms and manage user permissions. This allows us to create public or private chat rooms and control who can join them.
Real-Time Messaging
For real-time messaging, we can use WebSocket support provided by Appwrite Cloud. This allows us to send and receive messages in real-time, making the chat experience seamless for the users.
Conclusion
Building a real-time chat app with React and Appwrite Cloud is a powerful combination. With the ease of use of React and the robust backend services provided by Appwrite, you can create a modern and efficient real-time chat experience for your users. So go ahead and give it a try!
How do I deploy this?
you always use shortcut can't you just code an app by yourself without backend assistant
getting this error can anyone help
App write service :getCurrentUser::error AppwriteException: User (role: guests) missing scope (account)
Hello, nice video btw! But i have one question. In your messages collection , you have body, user id and username. Now it doesnt matter if its messages or like posts or smthing another. I think that there should be only that user id and connect it with that user id from auth db where you get username. But i cant find how can i do this in appwrite. Because there is one posibility but only in node js, not in the web enviroment.
Love much of this tutorial, thankss
I can't make request…I've installed everything i could, used different browsers but i keep getting preflight header errors
When I connect with realtime it is saying invalid origin register your new client cloud appwrite io as a new web platform on your project console dashboard
is there a good way to batch delete messages?
Can you do a tutorial for appwright that’s not a project tutorial but a normal tutorial going through all the different parts. And not just a small 30 minute tutorial but more of an in depth tutorial. I’m mainly asking because there’s no other tutorials like this on YouTube for appwright :/. But there’s a whole bunch for FireBase
At 27:38 – The message is not rendered.Instead its showing me an error:
ERROR: Indicate whether to send a cookie in a cross-site request by specifying its SameSite attribute
is there anyone who completed this project , can its working
love to see a Dennis feature once in a while!
I’m not a fan of having to check for those strings when determining if it was an insert or delete or whatever operation it was.. even the part where you need to check the string that includes your user ID from the permissions to display the trash icon. It just seems like an ugly solution.
How do I deploy this project on Netlify? it was published but the URL was broken..
I've deployed on GH-Page but i get a blank page, I can't link to my Repo in here for some reason. I get a 404 Error in the console.
AMAZING !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TUTORIAL
Excellent tutorial!
Hi! Can anyone help me with how to deploy it, once we build this?
I see that this platform uses a document database internally.
There is also supabase that uses postgres and pocketbase that uses sql lite.
I would like to see a comparison of these 3 new platforms.
I need help in understanding how the .env file works after deployment