This is a demo of a real-time chat app using React and Pusher's Chatkit. You can read about how it was created on Pusher's blog.

• An IDE of your choice e.g. Visual Studio Code.
• A basic knowledge of JavaScript
• An understanding of React and its component lifecycle methods is necessary.
• You’ll need to have Node >= version 6 and npm >= version 5.2 on your machine.
• Basic knowledge of using a CLI tool or terminal.

To get started with the project, make sure you have all the prequiisites above.

• Clone the project to your machine
• Update the keys in Components/App.js and Components/ChatApp.js
• Run the command npm install
• Run the command npm start
• Visit http://localhost:3000 to see application in action.

• Pusher Chatkit - Chatkit is the new Pusher service that adds chat to your web and mobile apps.
• Create React App boilerplate - Boilerplate for developing React apps.