my-chat-system

Scaleable personal chat system

Setup locally

• cd chat-server
• go mod download
• Install air for fast reload
• start the server

air --build.cmd "go build -o bin/api ./cmd/server" --build.bin "./bin/api -port=3000 -env=test

Connect to my instance

wscat -c http://13.203.105.149:1316/v1/chat

How to set up?

• Install wscat tool

• Clone the repo and go to chat-server directory

go mod download

go run main.go

• Run the command - wscat -c ws://localhost:1316/v1/chat

• Start chatting

File Structure

remote

contains config files and setup scripts for prod.

Makefile

will contain recipes for automating common administrative tasks — like auditing our Go code, building binaries, and executing database migrations.

internal

The internal directory will contain various ancillary packages used by our API. It will contain the code for interacting with our database, doing data validation, sending emails and so on. Basically, any code which isn’t application-specific and can potentially be reused will live in here. Our Go code under cmd/api will import the packages in the internal directory (but never the other way around).

cmd/api

The cmd/api directory will contain the application-specific code. This will include the code for running the server, reading and writing HTTP requests, and managing authentication.