Repository Overview

FULL-STACK CHAT AND VIDEO CALLING APP With Language Learning Courses.

Features:

• Discover new friends and learn with them
• Real-time chat
• Peer-to-peer video calling
• Add friends and view their learning languages
• Secure JWT-based authentication
• User profiles with language goals and basic info

Tech Stack

Frontend: React, React Router, Axios

Backend: Node.js, Express.js, Tanstack-query

Database: MongoDB + Mongoose

Real-time: WebRTC

Auth: JWT, bcrypt

Global State management with Zustand

Deployment: Render

Environment Variables (/backend)

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

PORT=5001 MONGO_URI=your_mongo_uri

STEAM_API_KEY=your_steam_api_key

STEAM_API_SECRET=your_steam_api_secret

JWT_SECRET_KEY=your_jwt_secret

NODE_ENV=development

VITE_STREAM_API_KEY=your_stream_api_key (for /frontend)

Run Locally

Run the backend using these commands:

  cd backend

  npm install

  npm run dev

Run the front-end using these commands:

  cd fronted

  npm install

  npm run dev