✨ Full-Stack Chat App with Auth & Emails ✨

Highlights:

• 🔐 Custom JWT Authentication (no 3rd-party auth)
• ⚡ Real-time Messaging via Socket.io
• 🟢 Online/Offline Presence Indicators
• 🔔 Notification & Typing Sounds (with toggle)
• 📨 Welcome Emails on Signup (Resend)
• 🗂️ Image Uploads (Cloudinary)
• 🧰 REST API with Node.js & Express
• 🧱 MongoDB for Data Persistence
• 🚦 API Rate-Limiting powered by Arcjet
• 🎨 Beautiful UI with React, Tailwind CSS & DaisyUI
• 🧠 Zustand for State Management
• 🧑‍💻 Git & GitHub Workflow (branches, PRs, merges)
• 🚀 Easy Deployment (free-tier friendly with Sevalla)
• 🧪 .env Setup

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

• PORT= 3000
• MONGO_URI=your_mongo_uri_here
• NODE_ENV=development
• JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
• RESEND_API_KEY =your_resend_api_key
• EMAIL_FROM =your_email_from_address
• EMAIL_FROM_NAME=your_email_from_name
• CLIENT_URL =http://localhost:5173
• CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloudinary_cloud_name
• CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_cloudinary_api_key
• CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_cloudinary_api_secret
• ARCJET_KEY=your_arcjet_key
• ARCJET_ENV=development

🔧 Run the Backend

• cd backend
• npm install
• npm run dev

💻 Run the Frontend

• cd frontend
• npm install
• npm run dev