📚 Simple App with Feathers.js

Lessons Learned   |    Technologies   |    Environment Setup   |    Features

Simple application developed to learn a web socket framework for Node.js. Completely based on Traversy Media's crash course available in YouTube.

🏆 Lessons Learned

• Feathers configuration in backend;
• Feathers configuration in frontend;

🚀 Technologies & Resources

Backend:

• Express
• Feathers.js 4
• Socket.io 2

Frontend:

• Feathers.js 4 (client)
• Socket.io 2 (client-side)

Development:

• Visual Studio Code
• Node.js routines

🔨 Setting up the Environment

Make sure to have Node.js 10+ installed in your machine and its npm available in the command line, then use the following command to start the server:

$ npm install   # Download dependencies
$ npm run watch # Run development server
$ npm start     # Start the server

⚡ Features

• Web socket creation;
• Submission of a form with real-time feedback;
• Deploy application on Heroku;