🚀 Live Chat Support Starter Kit — Open Source!
Hey everyone! 👋
I’m excited to share something I’ve been building:
a full live chat support starter kit — built with Next.js App Router, Socket.IO, Zustand, and TailwindCSS!
✨ What It Does
- 🔴 Real-time messaging between visitor and admin
- 👩💻 Separate admin and visitor UIs
- 💾 Persistence with sessionStorage/localStorage
- 🔚 Admin can end conversations, visitor can resume later
- ⚡ Deploy-ready: Vercel (frontend) + Railway (backend)
✅ Lightweight, fast, customizable — and open-source!
📸 Demo
🛠️ Tech Stack
- Frontend: Next.js (App Router), Zustand, TailwindCSS
- Backend: Express.js + Socket.IO
- Persistence: LocalStorage + SessionStorage
- Deployment: Vercel + Railway
📁 Project Repo
🔗 GitHub – unjica/live-chat-support-demo
🎯 Why I Built It
I wanted to create a clean starter kit for developers that shows:
- Real-time Socket.IO communication
- Simple yet structured backend architecture
- Lightweight state management with Zustand
- Developer-first deployability (no database needed to start)
🔥 Future Plans
- Database persistence (MongoDB or PostgreSQL)
- Authentication for Admin panel (NextAuth.js)
- Multi-agent support (for multiple admins)
- Typing indicators with avatars
🧠 How AI Helped
I used AI tools like Cursor and ChatGPT to:
- Structure the modular backend faster
- Improve Socket.IO error handling
- Draft early versions of the README and documentation
🙌 Feedback Welcome
If you:
- Have ideas 💡
- Want to contribute 🔥
- Find it useful 🌟
Feel free to open an issue, PR, or leave a comment!
Would love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks for reading! 🚀
📋 Tags
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#opensource #nextjs #socketio #webdev
Top comments (1)
Happy to answer any questions or hear ideas for future improvements! 🚀