Socket.IO Chat App in React Native for iOS/Android
What you'll learn
- Create a mobile app with React Native and Expo
- Create a Socket IO backend in Nodejs
- Create a public chatroom app with Socket IO and React Native
- Create a private messaging app similar to Facebook Messenger
- How to assign usernames to users joining the app
- How to use Redux to manage state inside React Native
- How to use React Hooks inside our Chat App
- How to use react-navigation for navigation inside the mobile app
- How to use Gifted Chat UI kit to bootstrap the UI
- How to use Gifted Chat UI kit with Socket IO backend
- How to manage layout on different devices
Course content
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Requirements
- Basic JavaScript ES6
Description
Learn how to create a Chat App from scratch using the newest JavaScript-based fullstack technologies!
You will first learn quickly how to create a public chat room that any user can join from the mobile app, and type with all other users who have joined.
Then we will expand on the app and create private messaging, in a similar fashion to Facebook Messenger.
We are going to be using technologies such as React Native, Socket.IO, Nodejs, Redux, react-navigation, and Gifted Chat UI.
If you have any questions during the course feel free to message me and I'll get back to you as soon as possible!
Who this course is for:
- Beginner React developers curious to learn how to make a realtime socket io chat app
Instructor
![Stefan Hyltoft](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Stefan has been building software since elementary school starting out with Visual Basic 6.0. Since then he has been dabbling with Python(Pygame), PHP & MySQL, and Java during university. Since he discovered the JavaScript world he found an intense interest in web development especially using ReactJs/React Native and using NodeJs for the backend.