Banter - A Discord Clone

Banter is a feature-rich Discord clone built with React, Redux Toolkit, Next.JS, TypeScript, styled-components, Tailwind CSS, and uses Firebase to communicate with the back-end.

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Features

• Send messages with gifs, images, videos, or text.
• Customize profile avatar, banner, bio, username, and more.
• Use a guest account or register to save credentials.
• Chat with people around the world in global server.
• Create a server and invite others with a unique code.
• Customize the server icon, name, and moderation content filter for gifs.
• Create separate channels within the server to discuss different topics.
• Create and customize different roles to assign members of the server.

Getting Started

Instructions to run the project locally are below! A Firebase account is required.

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/DevlinRocha/banter.git

# or

git clone git@github.com:DevlinRocha/banter.git

2. Go into the directory and install the modules:

cd banter/

npm install

# or

yarn install

3. Create a new project on Firebase.
   • Go to Firebase → Get Started / Go to console → Add project
   • You can name it anything you want. Analytics are not recommended.
4. Enable Firestore.
   • Go to Firestore Database → Create database
5. Register a web app for the project.
   • Go to Project Overview and select the </> (Web) icon.
   • You can name it anything. Hosting is not required.
6. Take each config value given and create a new .env.local file in banter/ root folder.
   • Can be found in Project settings → General → Your apps → SDK setup and configuration → Config
7. Paste the following into the new file. Replace each value with given values from Firebase web app config.

NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_API_KEY = apiKeyValue
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN = authDomainValue
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID = projectIdValue
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET = storageBucketValue
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID = messagingSenderIdValue
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_APP_ID = appIdValue

8. Run the development server:

npm run dev

# or

yarn dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser.

Development

• React
• Redux Toolkit
• Next.JS
• TypeScript
• styled-components
• Tailwind CSS
• Firebase
• Tenor API