Chat Application

Real time chat application developed by the requirements listed in the follwing document

Technologies Used

• Backend: Go
• Database: SQL (PostgreSQL)
• Frontend: ReactJS
• Containerization: Docker
• Orchestration: Docker Compose

Architecture

The application consists of several services, each running in its own Docker container:

• frontend: The frontend service, built with React and served using NGINX.
• backend: The backend service, built with Go.
• postgres: The PostgreSQL database service.
• rabbitmq: The RabbitMQ service, used for real-time messaging.

How to Run

1. Ensure Docker and Docker Compose are installed on your machine.

   • Visit the Docker website and download the appropriate Docker Desktop installer
     • For Windows: Download Docker Desktop for Windows
     • For Mac: Download Docker Desktop for Mac
   • After installation, you can verify that Docker is installed correctly by opening a terminal and running the following command:

     docker --version

2. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/johnnyCake1/chat-app

   and navigate to the project directory

   cd chat-app

3. Run the following command to build and start the application:

   docker-compose up --build

4. Once the application is running, you can access the frontend at http://localhost. For the development environment, the backend is accessible at http://localhost:8080. All the requests to http://localhost will be proxied to the backend service by NGINX running in the frontend container.