Messenger project : real time chat with ReactJS and Spring Boot

This web application is a project that I made myself to practice in Java and ReactJS. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you see any errors (small or big).

Project Requirements

• JDK 8
• NodeJS
• MySQL Server

Project set up

• This project use liquibase as a version control for database. When you will start backend, all tables and structures will be generated automatically.
• To try the project on localhost, check that nothing runs on ports 9090 (Spring Boot) and 3000 (React app)
• You can edit spring.datasource in backend/src/main/resources/application.properties and username and password in backend/src/main/resources/liquibase.properties with your own SQL login / password
• Create a database named "websocket" or you can also modify the name in the properties files mentioned just above.

Start server

• Go inside backend folder then type mvn spring-boot:run to launch backend.
• Or you can type mvn clean package to generate a JAR file and then start server with java -jar path/to/jar/file (Normally in inside backend/target/)

Start frontend

• Go inside frontend-web folder and then type npm react-scripts start

Features

• Simple chat group application based on websocket
• Send images
• Secure user account based on Spring Security JWT
• Room discussion with STOMP and SockJS
• Chat group administrators
• Add / remove users from conversation
• Dark / Light Mode