WhatsApp Clone | MERN + Socket.IO Project

💥 Key Features Included:

✅ Complete Backend

• User authentication using JWT & secure cookies
• OTP login via phone and email
• Custom middleware & protected routes
• User profile update, bio, and story (status) APIs
• Online/offline status tracking

✅ Real-Time Chat & Presence

• One-to-one real-time messaging with Socket.IO
• "Typing...", last seen, and online indicators
• Send and receive images and media files

✅ 🧑‍💻 Video Calling Feature (NEW in Part 3)

🔴 Real-time 1:1 video calling using WebRTC

🔗 Integrated with Socket.IO for signaling

📞 Peer-to-peer connection with clean UI

🔐 Secure and private calls just like WhatsApp

🎥 This feature is production-ready and easily extendable to group calling

✅ Stories (Status) Feature

• Upload and share stories visible for 24 hours
• View other users’ stories, just like WhatsApp

✅ Frontend (Login & Auth UI)

• Login and register screens integrated with backend
• Clean UI setup – Full chat UI & calling UI included in later parts

✅ Scalable Architecture

• Modular codebase
• Clean separation of logic
• Easy to deploy, extend, or customize

🎯 Perfect For:

• Students & freshers building real portfolio projects
• Developers mastering real-time apps with Socket.IO & WebRTC
• Candidates preparing for MERN stack interviews
• Founders building chat or video-calling products

💻 Tech Stack:

• Node.js & Express.js for backend APIs
• MongoDB + Mongoose for data modeling
• React.js for frontend
• Socket.IO for real-time chat and presence
• WebRTC for video calling
• JWT & Cookies for authentication
• Cloudinary (optional) for media uploads

⭐ Why Buy This Project?

✔️ Saves you 100+ hours of dev time

✔️ Learn industry-level backend and real-time communication

✔️ Boost your resume, portfolio, or freelance gigs

✔️ Includes modern UI and video call features

✔️ Easy to deploy and customize