Real-time chat server

Hi! It's a real-time chat server, at the same time a large number of users can read and send messages, by using websocket technology, making two-way communication between client and server over TCP protocol. All users connections, before broadcast, upgrade from http connection to ws in real-time.

Go | Gorilla/Websocket | Redis

• Websocket protocol (powered by Gorilla framework).
• NoSQL database Redis.
• Logging users and messages by ID.
• Catching runtime errors.

Execute app (mac)

You have to install:

• Go (https://go.dev/doc/install)
• Redis v8 (https://github.com/redis/go-redis)
• Gorilla/Websocket (https://github.com/gorilla/websocket) Make sure, that you run "redis-server", after launch application, you can check connection with Redis server with command in terminal "netstat -an | grep 6379".

1 redis-cli ping (answer: PONG)

2 redis-server

3 go run ./cmd/web

4 netstat -an | grep 6379

5 http://localhost:8081/

For test application you can use tools like a Postman or websocat, but also your browser