Cha-Cha-Chat

Cha-Cha-Chat is public chat where everyone's invited to chill and chit-chat. It is a real-time web chat application using websockets built for learning.

🌐 Try it live: chachachat.site

🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend (Nuxt 3)

• Nuxt 3 – Vue-powered full-stack framework
• TypeScript – Type-safe development
• Tailwind CSS – Utility-first styling
• Vite – Lightning-fast bundler and dev server
• ESLint & Prettier – Code linting and formatting
• pnpm – Fast, disk-efficient package manager

Backend (NestJS)

• NestJS – Scalable server-side framework for Node.js
• TypeScript – Strongly typed JavaScript
• PostgreSQL – Relational database for data storage
• Prisma – Type-safe ORM for PostgreSQL (or any supported DB)
• Socket.IO – Real-time communication via WebSockets
• ESLint & Prettier – Code linting and formatting
• pnpm – Shared workspace package manager

🚀 Getting Started

This repo is structured as a Turborepo monorepo using pnpm workspaces.

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18+ recommended)
• pnpm (npm install -g pnpm)
• A PostgreSQL instance (local or cloud)

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/cardosakv/cha-cha-chat.git
cd cha-cha-chat
pnpm install

2. Configure Environment Variables

Each app has its own .env file.

For Backend (/apps/backend/.env)

PORT=your_backend_port
DATABASE_URL=your_postgres_db_url

For Frontend (/apps/frontend/.env)

PORT=your_frontend_port
NUXT_PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL=your_backend_api_url

3. Setup the Database

cd apps/backend
npx prisma migrate dev

4. Run Locally

In the root directory:

pnpm dev