STOMP Chat

Chat client to operate through a STOMP pub/sub server. Designed to demonstrate my project stomper.

Might do for fun:

1. Support multiple channels
2. Support DMs
   • Have a pub/sub channel per DM that is created with a dynamic UUID to avoid snooping ?

Not really planning to write a dedicated chat server, so options are limited feature-wise.

Minor things I may clean up:

1. inconsistency in message spacing
2. additional UI controls

Borrows frames.go from stomper. Also looked at termoose/irccloud to help me grok writing a chat client & using tview while running multiple goroutines.

To run

1. Pull the stomper image from GHCR and clone this repo:

$ docker pull ghcr.io/tydar/stomper:main
$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/tydar/stomper.git

2. Build your chat client:

$ go build -o stomp-chat .

3. Run a stomper server with the appropriate environment variables for testing.

docker run -p 32801:32801 \
-e STOMPER_HOSTNAME=0.0.0.0 \
-e STOMPER_TOPICS=/channel/main \
-e STOMPER_TCPDEADLINE=0 \
ghcr.io/tydar/stomper:main

4. Run stomp-chat:

$ ./stomp-chat -uname=a_chat_user

A full listing of command line flags is available by running this command:

$ ./stomp-chat -h
-host string
	hostname of stomp server (default "localhost")
-log string
	filename for logging; destructively created each run (default "chat.log")
-port int
	port number for stomp server (default 32801)
-uname string
	username (default "default_guy_123")