🚀 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