✨ Full Stack Realtime Chat App ✨

✨ Features

• 🌟 Tech stack: MERN + Socket.io + TailwindCSS + Daisy UI
• 🔐 Authentication & Authorization with JWT
• � Real-time messaging with Socket.io
• � Online user status
• � Global state management with Zustand
• 🎯 Error handling (both server and client-side)
• 🖼️ Cloudinary image upload support
• 🌓 Light/Dark mode

🚀 Running the Application

1. Setup Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the backend directory:

MONGODB_URI=your_mongodb_connection_string
PORT=5001
JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret_key
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloud_name
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_api_key
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_api_secret
NODE_ENV=development

2. Start Backend Server

cd backend
npm install
npm run dev

Backend will run on: http://localhost:5001

3. Start Frontend Server

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

Frontend will run on: http://localhost:5173