chatapp

Small & lightweight go webserver & chat client for an instant chat messenging app in your terminal.
You can choose a username and a channel to connect to, and then start chatting with others (or just yourself).

Demo

Communication

We establish a real-time persistent communication between the client and the server via WebSocket.
WebSocket runs on TCP, configure the host and port in config.go.
The URL is ws://<host>:<port>/channels/<channel>/user/<user>

Database

The server also stores the messages in a SQLite Database, as a backup log. During runtime the database is not read from, just written to.

Run locally

1. Clone this repository
2. Install dependencies go get ./...

And then:

• Run server: go run ./server
• Run client: go run ./client
  (To skip the prompts, run go run ./client --dev)

Built with

• Bubble Tea
• go-sqlite3
• Gorilla WebSocket