syyunn / react-chat-app-using-aws-api-gateway-websocket-and-serverless-framework

Realtime chat web app using React, AWS API Gateway Websockets, Dynamodb and custom Cognito authorizer.

Realtime chat web app using React, AWS API Gateway Websockets, Dynamodb and custom Cognito authorizer. https://medium.com/neami-apps/how-to-build-a-react-chat-app-with-aws-api-gateway-websockets-and-cognito-custom-authorizer-6f84f2da47ec

Project Structure

── /backend/            # Api Gateway Websockets and Lambda functions
── /frontend/           # Frontend React web app

Stack

• React 16.8+
• Serverless 1.38+
• Node.js 8.10

Create AWS Cognito User Pool

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/tutorial-create-user-pool.html

Once User Pool created, Replace all APP_CLIENT_ID and USER_POOL_ID to your created IDs

Deploy Backend

cd backend
sls deploy
cd ..

Run React App

cd frontend
npm install
npm start