Search functionality within each conversation, to alllow searching for a particular message within conversation in message container

Add voice/video call functionality in the application (Future scope)

• delivered,
• read,
• edited
• and, most importantly, if the message failed to deliver

• Add voice messaging in the application, also read and delivered statuses with them.

Instead of replying to a message instantly, users may sometimes want to choose a more suitable date and time of delivery. This feature may be particularly useful in business contexts, when users may not want to disturb their colleagues during their absence, or send messages at specific times as reminders.

(Future-Scope)

We need to come up with a strategy to encrypt the messages between two users, such that only the users on the sending and receiving end be able to see it, and no others not even us can be able to decipher the messages. Please discuss some plans regarding this!

Files in review to do:

client/src/components/messages/Message.jsx

There should be a proper scalable plan for this application with something similar to the above architecture

• Using Pub/Sub model (Redis) for central store for real-time messages, so that even if number of servers increases to handle load, disconnected users also be able to send each other messages
• Using Kafka + DB, for storing of messages in the long run, kafka because of high concurrency if it occurs in the future.

Add all the above mentioned in the application (Sticker first, rest are future scope)

Can use cloudinary/AWS for image/video uploading process and all

Add disappearing messages functionality for messages, basically for particular cycles:

• After 1 week
• After 1 day
• After 1 month

like this, Can use cron job or something like that!

Integration of all the above

Add this functionality, while he is typing to show that he is typing!

This feature allows users to create a group of selected contacts and then send the same message to them without showing who else received the message – it will be displayed just as a standard, private message.

Do this for frontend and backend both