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DevLink is a full-stack messaging platform built with React, TypeScript, Express, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. It enables users to connect through direct messages and a global community chat while providing a secure authentication system with both local and OAuth login.
The frontend delivers a responsive chat experience featuring conversation management, user discovery, grouped messages, and a modern interface built with reusable UI components.
This repository contains the client-side application.
DevLink's frontend communicates with a separate RESTful API built with Express, Prisma, and PostgreSQL.
- Backend Repository: https://github.com/Dewiin/devlink-api
- Backend Deployment: https://devlink-api-0r03.onrender.com
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💬 Messaging
- Global community chat available to all authenticated users.
- Private one-on-one conversations between users.
- Smooth auto-scrolling to the latest messages.
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🔐 Secure Authentication
- Google and GitHub OAuth login.
- JWT authentication with rotating refresh tokens.
- Secure HttpOnly cookie-based session management.
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👥 User Discovery
- Browse all registered users.
- Search users by display name.
- Start conversations directly from user profiles.
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🎨 Responsive UI
- Clean messaging interface built with reusable components.
- Mobile-friendly navigation.
- Built using Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui.
I enjoy building open-source software and creating applications that solve real-world problems. Contributions of all kinds are welcome, including:
- New features
- Bug fixes
- Performance improvements
- UI/UX enhancements
- Documentation improvements
- Suggestions and feedback
- Fork the repository.
- Create a feature branch.
- Commit your changes.
- Push your branch.
- Open a pull request.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2026 Devin
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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