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Shark Chat

A Chat app built with Trpc, Tailwind CSS, Ably, Redis, Cloudinary, Drizzle ORM, Next.js.

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Features

  • Create, Update, Delete Chat Group
  • Send, Update, Delete Message
  • Markdown (gfm, tables supported), Code highlighting, LaTeX in Messages
  • Reference Messages
  • Message Embeds (Display open-graph data of links in message)
  • Send Images/Files via Message, images zoom-in
  • Direct Message with anyone
  • View & Kick Group members
  • Custom Emotes
  • Invite Group members via Invite code or Url
  • Upload user avatar, group banner and icon images
  • Show notification when new Message received
  • AI-Powered Message Writer
  • Built-in AI Chatbot (Powered by Inworld)
  • Delete Accounts
  • Light & Dark Mode
  • 100% Typescript

Play with it: https://shark-chat.vercel.app

Play with it Locally

Shark Chat integrated with many third-party service for supporting wide spectrum of features and work perfectly on serverless environment.

Thus, you have to register an account for each services in order to setup the project correctly before playing with it locally. Please fill all environment variables in the .env.example.

Upstash

Create a Redis database at their website and get REDIS_URL, REDIS_TOKEN from the console.

Ably Realtime

Create a new project on https://ably.com, paste ABLY_API_KEY into environment varibles.

Database

By default, it uses Drizzle ORM with Neon Serverless Postresql for database. You may use other providers if you prefer.

Create a Postresql database and get your DATABASE_URL.

Cloudinary

Create a new project on https://cloudinary.com, copy the cloud name, key and API secret.

Next Auth

Fill NEXTAUTH_URL and NEXTAUTH_SECRET, read their docs for further details.

Currently, only Github OAuth is supported. Follow this guide to setup the OAuth App on Github, generate a GITHUB_ID with GITHUB_SECRET.

Development Mode

Run pnpm run dev and edit files to see changes.

Build from Source

This project uses Turborepo and PNPM.

pnpm run build

It should be able to deploy on Vercel or any other platforms.