go_chat

Simple chat service using websocket and grpc, written in GO.

There are 3 components: a message store, a webserver and a simple frontend. The webserver listens for incoming http connections from the frontend and tries to update it to a web socket connection. When a new connection comes in, it will be registered and messages from different clients will be broadcasted between them. The message store component is optional, but if it does operate then on a new clients connection it will receive all the previous messages made by other clients. Currently ports are hardcoded in all 3 components: webserver listens on 8080 while the message store on 8081.

To start the backend components, execute the following commands in two different terminal:

• go run .\cmd\grpc_server\main.go to start the message store,
• go run .\cmd\ws_server\main.go to start the webserver,

and open the frontend\home.html on multiple pages in your web sockets enabled browser.