Chat

A small prototype repo I made to see how hard it would be to make a chat application using websockets.

Why?

Why not?

Current Features

• User registration & authentication
• Guilds
• Channels
• Message sending & receive
• Attachments (Stored via S3)
• User preference storage

Usage

Firstly, rename .env.example and fill it out by providing valid postgres credentials, MinIO root credentials, and a random string for the session secret.

Then, you need to generate a session token for the admin user in MinIO. To do this, start up the application using docker compose up (starting certain components in this state will fail, this is normal) and then visit http://localhost:9001 in your browser. Log in using the credentials you provided in the .env file, navigate to access keys, and generate a new key. Copy the access key and secret key into the .env file.

Then, run docker compose up to start the backend, database and MinIO instances.

Contributing

If you're working with database-related code, set the git hooks directory to .githooks using git config core.hooksPath .githooks. This ensures that the snapshot for sqlx is up to date.