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Nick Parsons
Nick Parsons

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Build a Fully Functional Messaging Platform in 30 Minutes

Learn how to build a fully functional messaging platform using Stream's Messaging API in under 30 minutes!

The build uses the Stream Chat React Components, Create React App, and a few other libraries to get up and running quickly. Enjoy! :)

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Rishad Omar • Edited

Hi Nick, Do you have a link to the source in github?
I've copied the code from your video but getting an error on server with 'updateUser()':

    const token = serverSideClient.createToken(username);
    console.log('Token for ' + username, token);
    try {
        await serverSideClient.updateUser({
            id: username,
            name: username
        }, token);
    } catch (err) {
        res.status(500).send("Error encountered updating user")
    }
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(node:68217) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error [ERR_HTTP_HEADERS_SENT]: Cannot set headers after they are sent to the client
    at ServerResponse.setHeader (_http_outgoing.js:485:11)
    at ServerResponse.header (/home/rishad/projects/learn/group-messaging-demo/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:771:10)
    at ServerResponse.send (/home/rishad/projects/learn/group-messaging-demo/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:170:12)
    at /home/rishad/projects/learn/group-messaging-demo/server.js:38:19
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
(node:68217) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 6)
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Discovered that I didn't have permission to create a Chat. printing out the error message in server.js is a good idea:

    } catch (err) {
        console.log("Error encountered updating user", err)
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Now getting the error:

Both secret and user tokens are not set. Either client.setUser wasn't called or client.disconnect was called
    at TokenManager.getToken
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Saad Alem

What are the cons ?