loyal812 / rust-chat-app

The essence of the work is that the client sends a message to the backend and these messages are shared with other connected clients via websockets.

Simple chat API backend demo

This is a backend for a chat.

The essence of the work is that the client sends a message to the backend and these messages are shared with other connected clients via websockets.

Try it out!

1. Install Rust
2. Run the server:

$ cargo run --release

3. Use an API client of your choice to send and receive messages:

POST 127.0.0.1:8080/message
GET 127.0.0.1:8080/messages

4. As for continuous message updates you can use websocat:

$ cargo install websocat

$ websocat ws://127.0.0.1:9090