akka-chat

Pet project for some learning in scope of modern web-technologies.

Live Demo

Available on GCP here: web-chat

Features

• Akka stack for backend (akka-http, akka-streams)
• React.js stack for front
• Notifications via Websockets
• Kafka Streams for stats calculation
• Basic Auth, CORS
• Fully in-memory storage
• Integration/performance tests using Gatling
• Dockerized

Run on Docker

Zero dependency on jdk/scala/npm required.
Running-up:

1. In docker-compose.yaml: substitute CHAT_SERVER_HOST=localhost with your Docker ip
2. docker-compose up

Run for local development

See then:

• Core
• Statistics
• Frontend
• Integration tests

Functionality sample