Serverless Environment for Chatty

This repo holds the code for the Serverless enviroment that supports the frontend Chatty application.

Deploying

First, create an account and an application on Serverless. Take note of your tenant name as well as your application name as these two will be needed.

Clone this repo into a serverless directory:

$ git clone git@github.com:GetStream/stream-chat-chatty-serverless.git serverless

Open the serverless.yml file and modify the app and tenant name at the top of the file. Then fill out the rest of the environment variables.

service: chatty # your serverless app name
app: chatty # your serverless app name
tenant: stream # your serverless tenant name

AND

environment:
    DB_CONN: YOUR_MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING # https://atlas.mongodb.com
    DB_NAME: YOUR_MONGODB_DATABASE_NAME
    DB_COL: YOUR_MONGODB_COLLECTION_NAME
    TWILIO_SID: YOUR_TWILIO_SID
    TWILIO_TOKEN: YOUR_TWILIO_TOKEN
    TWILIO_NUMBER: YOUR_TWILIO_NUMBER
    STREAM_KEY: YOUR_STREAM_KEY
    STREAM_SECRET: YOUR_STREAM_SECRET
    CHANNEL_TYPE: messaging # keep this as messaging
    CHANNEL_NAME: chatty-kathy-5 # make this the same value as web

Install the dependencies using yarn.

$ cd serverless && yarn install

Create an account on AWS and install the AWS CLI on your machine.

$ brew install awscli

$ aws configure

Install the Serverless framework globally.

$ yarn global add serverless

Finally, run the deploy command.

$ serverless deploy

Happy coding! ✌