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 YouChat is a  chat appication that makes it easy to communicate with people anywhere in the world by sending and receiving messages in real time. It is built with react, react router and firebase.
 
-# [Link](https://chat-react-ap.netlify.app/)
 
+## Technology stack
 
+- React
+- Firebase
+- Netlify (deployment)
 
+## Dependencies
+
+1. React moment (date formatter)
+3. React router (routing)
+
+## Getting started
+
+These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+The following software is required to be installed on your system:
+- Node
+- Npm
+
+Type the following commands in the terminal to verify your node and npm versions
 ```bash
 npm -v
 node -v
 ```
+1. Clone the repo
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/Seundede/chat-application.git
+cd chat application
+```
+2. Install the dependencies
+
+```bash
+npm install
+```
+3. Create a new firebase project on firebase.com
+
+4. Create a firebase.js and update your firebase configuration
+
+```bash
+const firebaseConfig = {
+  apiKey:
+  authDomain: 
+  databaseURL: 
+  projectId: 
+  storageBucket: 
+  messagingSenderId:
+  appId: 
+};
+```
+5. Start the development server
+
+```bash
+npm start
+
+```
+
+6. This will open the website in your browser on http://localhost:3000
+
+
+