Not A Basic Chat App

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  real-time chatting , video calling , audio calling , ai language translation , etc ...

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  status/story feature to show case your updates for 24 hr

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  change theme according to your choice

Inspiration

inspiration : i saw a lot of tutorials on youtube and udemy teaching how to create chat app but with basic functionality while i decided to level it up with adding advanced features , and naming it as "Not a Basic Chat App"

What it does

many features like realtime chatting , location sharing , image/file sharing , video/audio callng and a lot more features . it has so many features that i created a dedicated website to showcase it's feaetures , link to this website - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dikshit-mahanot_notabasicchatapp-thechatguide-webdevelopment-activity-7259176981768871936-Ex60?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

How we built it

as i said i created a different website documenting this one so , you can find all tech stack here : link - https://chat-guide.vercel.app/

if you can't go ahead the string thing watch this : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dikshit-mahanot_notabasicchatapp-thechatguide-webdevelopment-activity-7259176981768871936-Ex60?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Challenges we ran into

1.) learning sockets 2.) utilizing ai and also getting it's acces for free 3.) re-rendering issue 4.) file uploading

Accomplishments that we're proud of

1.) getting praised by many youtube teachers and founders for this project 2.) making one of the best non-profitational project

What we learned

1.)socket.io 2.)better understanding of databases 3.)optimizing a react app

What's next for Chat App

being very honest i haven't given it a though as of now

Built With

• framer-motion
• gsap
• javascript
• node.js
• postman
• react
• socket.io
• tailwind