Introduction

Built a Distributed Chat system with Golang, Cassandra and Redis. Scalling Websocket servers with redis Pub/Sub and storing message in Cassandra. Made this project for educational purpose.

Detailed Explanation on System Architecture: https://dev.to/leoantony72/distributed-chat-application-22oo

 

Running the application

docker-compose up -d

CRUD Routes

Routes	Method	Description
/user	POST	Create a User
/room	POST	Create a Room
/joinroom	POST	Join in a Room

Websocket Connection

ws:/localhost/chat?id=username

Examples

• /user

{
    "username":"JOHN"
}

• /room

{
    "name":"anime",
    "user":"JOHN"
}

• /joinroom

{
    "name":"anime",
    "user":"JOHN"
}

• Private Chat - Websocket

{
    "msg":"hello Boi",
    "receiver":"2GKtMkzDZDerO2a1gl5IHK6OTPY",
    "is_group":false
}

• Group Chat - Websocket

{
    "msg":"hello Boi",
    "is_group":true,
    "group_name":"anime"
}

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Hope you will try this out, and leave me your feedback also feel free to improve this project by making a PR😁.