This is a real-time webchat application. Once users log in, they can see all other users in the room and start a chat. User can view message history between them and other users.
- Frontend: React Typescript, Tailwind CSS, Next.js
- Backend: Golang
- Protocol: Websocket
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Infrastructure: Docker
cd clientnpm installnpm run dev- Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.
- For more information, please check the README.MD in the client folder
- Require: Docker
- Spin up database:
- Go to server folder:
cd server - Pull postgreSQL image:
docker pull postgres:16-alpine - Initalize database:
make postgres init - Create database:
make createdb - Migrate up:
make migrateup
- Go to server folder:
- Run backend/server as docker:
docker-compose up --build
- Set up the frontend and backend as instructed above
- Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to visit the login page for the web chat app, signup/login as necessary
- The app only accepts signup request if username has not been created and login request for correct username and password
- Once logged in, you can now begin your chat. Starting a conversation with another user will by default broadcast a "Howdy" message to the recipient
- Signup, login, logout authentication
- Save messages to database
- Send, receive, and view messages and conversation history
This is my first time working on an full-stack application project and using all of the tools for this project so it was a great opportunity for me to learn new frameworks, programming languages (Golang), and design flow (database design). In the future, the following would be areas of development that I would like to work on for this project
- Message reaction and emoji features
- User profile creation: display name, profile picture
- UI for alerting users when login and signup fails due to wrong password and exisiting username
- Refactor the websocket code to create 3 layers of abstraction: database layer <- service layer <- websocket handling layer