Thunk is a live-chat application Slack clone that uses websockets to establish a persistent connection between the front-end user and the back-end server.
Live-site: https://aa-thunk.herokuapp.com/#/
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Database - PostgreSQL
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Version-Control - Git
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Module Bundler - Webpack
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Languages - JavaScript, Ruby
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Ruby on Rails - RESTful API on the back-end of Thunk.
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React - front-end views with normalized state. Ajax calls made to the RESTful Rails back-end.
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ActionCable - websocket framework to establish live-chat.
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Redis - Used in conjunction with ActionCable to establish the PUB/SUB messaging environment.