Fauna Stream Chat App

This sample app demostrates how to use Fuana stream to build a real-time chat app. It's built with Next.js and Fauna database.

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of React and Next.js
• Fauna account

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/fauna-labs/chat-app-streaming

2. Install dependencies

cd chat-app-streaming
npm install

3. Configure Fauna database

   • Login to your Fauna CLI using fauna cloud-login. If you don't have the CLI installed, you can install it using npm install -g fauna-shell
   • Create a new database using fauna create-database chat-app
   • Migrate the schema using fauna schema push
   • Create a new key for your UnAuthenticatedRole by running the following FQL code in the Fauna shell

       Key.create({
           role: 'UnAuthenticatedRole'
       })
   

4. Save the key to a .env file in the root of the project.

# UnAuthenticatedRole
NEXT_PUBLIC_FAUNA_UNAUTHENTICATED_SECRET=<Unauth-user-key-for-your-database>

5. Run the app

npm run dev

6. Open the app in your browser at http://localhost:3000