butlerx / channels

websocket based streaming data service

channels

Channels is a distributed multi-channel websocket based streaming data service. Channels Server allows for publishing arbitrary data that can be consumed by multiple consumers.

Channels are low cost to create and delete allowing for user to send generate shared secrets to send and consume data from without needing to configure servers.

Channels is designed for easy webhook integration, etl and buffering of distributed workloads.

Spark Gapping

Channels has to endpoints, a public endpoint that only excepts post requests and a private with all endpoint available. This allow channels to accept webhooks from multiple servers without having to have the consumption endpoint available publicly.

Running

requires: NATS

cargo run

Configuration

Development

To start the server in dev mode first run from the root of the repo

cargo watch -x 'run -- -vvv' --ignore client

This Start the public API Server on port 9002 and the private server on 9001.

Then from the client directory run

yarn start

This will start a dev server for the client app for the public endpoint on port 3000 that will proxy all requests to the public api server