aaron-baby / go-cli-chat

Chat server and command line interface client written in Go. The application heavily utilizes goroutines and channels.

💬 go-cli-chat

Chat server and client written in Go (simple prototype). The application heavily utilizes goroutines and channels. Go makes the concurrency easy to use and I had a lot of fun during development of this simple app.

Usage

1. Start the NATS server

$ go get github.com/nats-io/nats-server; nats-server &

The NATS server listens for client connections on TCP Port 4222.

2. Build and run client:

Build and run chat-client:

$ make run-client

Run chat-client binaries in cmd/ dir:

$ ./cmd/chat-client/chat-client

3. Run HTTP Server

$ make run-http-server

The HTTP server listens for client connections on TCP Port 3000.

REST Usecases

$ curl -X POST -d '{"msg":"awesomeness"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://localhost:3000/messages
{"Msg":"awesomeness"}

$ curl localhost:3000/messages
[{"Msg":"a [21:59:24] hi"},{"Msg":"awesomeness"},{"Msg":"a [21:59:49] pp"}]

Please Note

I have leveraged below repos on this projects

• https://github.com/Luqqk/go-cli-chat
• https://github.com/go-chi/chi

Known Issues

• Username and timestamp are attached to msg body.
• All messages send and receive are on msg.test subject.