🗨️ Talketeer

Talketeer is a full-stack, real-time chat application built with the MERN stack and Socket.io.
It delivers an intuitive chatting experience with real-time messaging, room creation, typing indicators, and message persistence — all wrapped in a modern and responsive interface.

💬 The design takes some inspiration from Discord, because I use it a lot!

✨ Overview

Talketeer focuses on providing a smooth and reliable real-time communication system with:

• 🔐 Email-based registration & login
• 🔄 Tokenized password reset flow
• 💬 Public & private chat rooms
• ⚡ Real-time messaging and typing indicators
• 🕓 Message history and recent chat fetching
• 👥 Room management (owner kick/ban controls)
• 🪟 Tenor integration
• 🎨 Clean, minimal UI built for responsiveness

🖼️ Screenshots

Unauthorized (not logged in) pages:

• Landing page

• Login/Register page

Authorized (logged in) pages:

• Chat page

  • Not in a room
  
  • Not in a room, notifications dialog open
  
  • In a room
  
  • In a room, member list and room list expanded
  
  • In a room, member list and room list collapsed
  

Other pages:

• Loading page (Animated spinner)

• Not found page

• Error page

📂 Project Structure

talketeer/
├── backend/      # Express + TypeScript + Socket.io server
├── frontend/     # React + Vite + TypeScript client
└── README.md     # (You’re here!)

Each subdirectory includes its own README with setup and development instructions.

🧑‍💻 Author

Made with ♥️ by Sumit Chaurasiya.