Chat App frontend

Chat App is a mock WhatsApp application in which this project was also inspired by. The idea behind this project was to recreate the basic features and functionalities that exist in WhatsApp. The backend project for this project is called chat-app-backend.

I mainly started this project in order to demonstrate and apply what I've learned working with tools and technologies I was previously unfamiliar with to create this project.

Description

Users are able to Signup and Login to begin chatting with other users on the platform. Users will be able to tell when other users are typing in real-time and creating group or individual chats.

Requirements

• Node.js v14
• TypeScript

Setup

Before starting development, install dependencies:

• npm install

To begin local development:

• npm run dev

Build application to run a local prod server:

• npm run local-prod

Notes

• The Vuex documentation for writing tests that mock actions suggests using webpack and inject-loader. As it turns out the example for mocking actions is outdated and other methods of mocking actions should be used since vue-loader no longer works with inject-loader.

• In our test files Vue has to be bootstrapped in order for Vuetify to work properly on the version this project is using. See the comment on the issue about this.
  Docs: https://next.vuetifyjs.com/en/getting-started/unit-testing/#bootstrapping-vuetify

• jest-fetch-mock uses cross-fetch to globally set the fetch API and its interfaces (Request, Response, Headers) in order to mock API calls in jest. It imports cross-fetch using require(). However, because Babel 6 killed the commonJS default export behavior, when jest-fetch-mock imports cross-fetch it attempts to access the interfaces like so, require('cross-fetch').Request when it should be require('cross-fetch').default.Request. Using babel-plugin-add-module-exports we can bring back the babel 5 behavior that will allow require('cross-fetch').Request to work.

• The jest-fetch-mock package doesn't seem to work in this application for unit-testing. Attempting to mock a json response results in jest throwing TypeError: response.json is not a function.