CH-API

Chat API.

The goal of this project is to provide the basics to get a chat working.

Important note: use localhost to navigate the site.

Requirements:

Packages for Arch Linux:

• base-devel (pacman)
• kore.io (manual, it must be compiled with TASKS=1)
• curl (pacman)
• mongodb (pacman)
• redis (pacman)
• hiredis (pacman)
• libconfig (pacman)
• libscrypt (pacaur) (requires some manual work -fPIC in LDFLAGS)
• mongo-c-driver (pacaur)
• libflate (pacaur)

Useful readings / APIs

• https://kore.io/doc
• http://api.mongodb.org/c/current
• http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig_manual.html#Using-the-Library-from-a-C-Program
• https://github.com/technion/libscrypt/blob/master/main.c

Build / Run

You can make an alias or run it like this:

Set your env vars in run.sh (copy of example_run.sh) and just run ./run.sh

To test requests better use curl, for example:

curl -X POST -k --data
"email=jdoe@gmail.com&firstname=John&lastname=Doe&password=123456&password_confirmation"
https://localhost:8888/sign_up