tcptap

A chat app written in Go.

The goal of this project was to explore what was required to support non-trivial chat applications with as simple a protocol as possible.

Data layer:

There are conversations and users. A user may be a participant in a conversation. Messages are attributed to the user that sent them (duh). In a sql database, it might look like this:

          Participations
            //      \\
Conversations        Users
            \\      //
             Messages

Client:

The client is a command line client. You can run it by executing the following command:

tcptap connTapClient <host:port>

The client is pretty awesome.

Docker:

To run the server with docker:

docker build -t seanpont/tcptap .
docker run -p 8080:80 seanpont/tcptap

Running on GCloud

gcloud compute instances create tcptap
--image container-vm
--metadata-from-file google-container-manifest=containers.yaml
--tags http-server
--zone us-central1-a
--machine-type f1-micro

Please note:

This is not a production app. It is not supremely well tested. There are known bugs. It is an experiment.

seanpont / tcptap