What is Discursor?

This is a simple proof-of-concept project for learning React, Redux and Node.js in three days or so.

Setup and run in dev mode

To try in development mode, type this in project directory:

npm install
npm run start-dev

Finally, head to localhost:3000, unless the script has already taken you there.

Status

• A simple, non-persisted WebSocket-based chat. Has no sessions, no chatrooms, just one page showing the messages.
• Looks more like a single-channel IRC, really.
• Practically no tests.
• No error handling.
• No security concerns addressed.
• Has to be started manually.
• Only tested in dev mode.

Next steps

Build/infra

• Build and run it in production mode
• Make Travis deploy it to Heroku
• Get rid of create-react-app magic

Features

• Implement join/part notifications
• Implement channels/chatrooms
• Implement user sessions (to not lose chat history upon reload, at the very least)

Code quality/practices

• Re-evaluate application of immutable.js through the app code
• Enforce Redux best practices
• Thunks/Promises look nice...