craquiest / python_websockets_chatroom_app

Chat room type application, that utilizes Python FastAPI, WebSockets and MongoDB for persistence

Chat Room App

This app uses

• Python FastAPI+WebSockets docs
• MotorAsyncIO docs
• MongoDB docs

To Run Locally

I've set it up so that you only need to use the run script

$ ./run

Then go to localhost:8000/{room_name}/{user_name}

The room_name and user_name can be replaced by whatever you want (although you need to match room_names to actually chat with friends)

Explaination

The front-end is simple HTML/CSS and Javascript using the WebSocket connection to establish a client server connection. Currently (05-04-2020) this works perfectly on it's own but there is no persistence to the database so chat sessions and usernames cannot be stored.

The back-end has been partially written and yet to be connected with the backend. A few more instructions need to be present in order to maintain persistence. So with MongoDB we are storing a Username/Password combo, all of the active rooms, and all of the messages per room. When connected to the front-end the UX/UI will drastically change as we can display all active chat rooms to join as well as the members inside of a chatroom.