README.md

Sanctum Chat

Discord-like chat app made with FastAPI, MongoDB, tailwind and Vanilla JS. For fun project to mainly develop my back-end skills.

Features

• JWT authentication
• WebSockets
  • Real-time messaging
  • User info
• Basic CRUD operations
  • Updating and deleting messages
  • Pfps

Future updates

• Refactor spaghetti JS code / Vue maybe
• Sending files in chat
• FastAPI routers
• Learn Mongo properly / whole db.py refactor

Security

Passwords are stored as salted bcrypt hashes.

userWithHashedPW.update({'_id' : user_id,'password' : bcrypt.hashpw(password, bcrypt.gensalt())})

For JWTs i went with HS256.

SECRET_KEY = "00e8811e86e78cff2c3ab2a4a1a74718562fd9c00bfc64433ed173f4b4daf6ba"

If this project ever sees light of the internet THIS IS GOING TO BE CHANGED !

Run Locally

Install dependencies

  npm install

  pip install -r requirements.txt

Start the server

  uvicorn main:app