Erlang Cowboy Websocket Messaging Service REST API

An Erlang OTP application as a websocket using Cowboy for sending messages in full-duplex. This application handles the state of every user, the presence of every users and perfectly scalable

Requirements

Rebar3 as build tool

Deploying to Heroku

You can refer to this tutorial https://github.com/madcat78/cowboy-websocket-example by madcat78. Special thanks to madcat78 for the Erlang Heroku webpack.

API Usage

Authentication

// Host
https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/

// Endpoint
POST - /apiv1/connect

// headers
Authorization: Basic Y2xpZW50aWQ6c2VjcmV0
Accept: application/json  
Content-Type: application/json

// request body
grant_type=client_credentials 

Sending Message

Build and Run

$ rebar3 compile
$ rebar3 shell