bonfire

Discord clone project

Features

• Real-time text chatting
• Direct messaging
• Voice chat and channels
• Discord "Servers" including
  • settings
  • channels
  • users
  • roles (and admins)
  • invite links
• Personal profile and settings
• Similar UI

Development

• React used to make frontend
• ExpressJS used to make REST API
• PostgreSQL database hosted on Neon.tech used to store data
• JWT used to generate and verify secure web token for session management and API authentication
• Passport.js handles authentication flow, with bcrypt used to hash user passwords
• socket.io used to make WebSockets (for Real-time chatting)
• Agora used to handle voice chat