chat retrieval is done

src/backend/api.js

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ const LOCAL = "http://localhost:8099";
 const DEV = "https://dev.bro-js.ru";
 const SERVER = "";
 
-export const BASE_API_URL = LOCAL + getConfigValue("enterfront.api") + "/enterfront";
+export const BASE_API_URL = DEV + getConfigValue("enterfront.api") + "/enterfront";
 
 // fetch(`${BASE_API_URL}/books/list`)
 

src/components/home/Search.jsx

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import React from 'react';
+
+const Search = (props) => {
+  return (
+      <a className="MyButton search-class mclaren-regular" onClick={() => {
+          props.search(props.item);
+      }}>Find</a>
+  );
+};
+
+export default Search;

src/components/home/css/homeTitle.css

@@ -12,11 +12,23 @@
     color: orange;
 }
 
+.search-class {
+    margin-top: 2vw;
+    margin-bottom: 4vw;
+
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: center;
+}
+
 
 @media only screen and (max-width: 800px) {
     .homeTitle {
         font-size: 8vh;
     }
+
+    .search-class {
+        margin-top: 3vh;
+    }
 }
 
 .chatIcon {

src/components/reg/InputField.jsx

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ const InputField = (props) => {
               onChange={(e) => props.setValue(e.target.value)}
               value={props.value}
               className="Input"
+              placeholder={(props.placeholder) ? props.placeholder : ''}
           />
       </div>
   );

src/pages/Home.jsx

@@ -4,10 +4,14 @@ import ChatsList from "../components/home/ChatsList.jsx";
 import Header from "../components/home/Header.jsx";
 import {displayMessage} from "../backend/notifications/notifications";
 import {MessageType} from "../backend/notifications/message";
-import {get} from "../backend/api";
+import {get, post} from "../backend/api";
+import InputField from "../components/reg/InputField.jsx";
+import Search from "../components/home/Search.jsx";
+import {URLs} from "../__data__/urls";
 
 const Home = () => {
     const [chats, setChats] = useState([])
+    const [interlocutor, setInterlocutor] = useState("")
 
     async function retrieveChats() {
         const username = localStorage.getItem("username");
@@ -24,6 +28,23 @@ const Home = () => {
         setChats(data.chats);
     }
 
+    async function createChat(alias) {
+        const username = localStorage.getItem("username");
+        if (!username) {
+            displayMessage("You're not logged in!", MessageType.WARN);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        const {ok, data} = await post('/chat/item/' + username + '/' + alias);
+        if (!ok) {
+            displayMessage(data.message, MessageType.ERROR);
+        } else {
+            localStorage.setItem('message', 'Successfully opened chat!');
+            localStorage.setItem('interlocutorId', alias);
+            window.location.href = URLs.chat.url;
+        }
+    }
+
     useEffect(() => {retrieveChats().then()}, [])
 
     return (
@@ -33,6 +54,15 @@ const Home = () => {
           </div>
 
           <HomeTitle/>
+
+          <InputField
+              title="Create new chat"
+              value={interlocutor}
+              setValue={setInterlocutor}
+              placeholder="Enter the username (id)"
+          />
+          <Search search={createChat} item={interlocutor}/>
+
           <p>Your chats</p>
           <ChatsList chats={chats} />
       </div>

stubs/api/chat/index.js

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ const chatRouter = require('express').Router();
 
 module.exports = chatRouter;
 
-const { getChatFromDB, getUsersChats, addChatToDB } = require('../db');
+const { getChatFromDB, getUsersChats, addChatToDB, getUserFromDB } = require('../db');
 
 chatRouter.get('/item/:id1/:id2', (req, res) => {
     const { id1, id2 } = req.params;
@@ -27,16 +27,20 @@ chatRouter.post('/item/:id1/:id2', (req, res) => {
         // Chat already exists
         res.status(200).send({chat});
     } else {
-        // Creating new chat
+        if (!getUserFromDB(id1) || !getUserFromDB(id2)) {
-        const newChat = {
+            res.status(404).send({message: 'Such interlocutor does not exist'});
-            id1: id1,
+        } else {
-            id2: id2,
+            // Creating new chat
-            messages: []
+            const newChat = {
+                id1: id1,
+                id2: id2,
+                messages: []
+            }
+
+            addChatToDB(newChat);
+
+            res.status(200).send({newChat});
         }
-
-        addChatToDB(newChat);
-
-        res.status(200).send({newChat});
     }
 })