MSGHUB - CHAT APPLICATION

       

A messaging application built using golang and bootstrap, one can group message and personal message.
The front-end section of the application consist of HTML, CSS, JS & Bootstrap and the backend is completely built on Golang (GO). And to access websocket the developer has used the help of gorilla/websocket.

Any UI based contributions are highly encouraged.

Features

• Personal Messaging
• Group Messaging
• Story / Status viewing and adding
• Group Creation

The app do have limitations because the front-end is just html, css and js. Therefore Live reload may not be possible like react or other front-end frameworks.

Screenshots

💻 Test application on your machine

• Create .env file in the msghub-server directory which should include -
  • TWILIO_SID
  • TWILIO_TOKEN
  • TWILIO_SERVICE
  • DB_HOST
  • DB_PORT
  • DB_USER
  • DB_PASS
  • DB_NAME
  • DB_SSLMODE
  • AWS_S3_REGION
  • AWS_S3_BUCKET
  • JWT_KEY
• Then open terminal from root directory of this application and run :

cd msghub-server

go mod tidy

go run main.go

• Then open http://localhost:9000/ in your browser.

The websocket might not work when you running this application locally because websocket runs on wss protocol.

❤ Conclusion

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