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Here's a simple multiple user chat application for real-time messaging written in GoLang and React framework

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• Real‐time messaging for multiple users (Used WebSocket protocol for connection, goroutines and channel for asynchronous operation)
• Authorization and authentication (By storing JSON Web Tokens in Cookies)
• Users' Database (Implemented using GORM ORM library and PostgreSQL)

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1. Go version 1.16 or greater installed. To set this up, visit the https://go.dev/doc/install to install it for your operation system

2. In case you are setting up the server, it will be required to use PostgreSQL database server, visit https://www.postgresql.org/download/ and follow the installation instructions

3. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/ssergomol/Realtime-Chat

4. By default server tries to connect to database realtimechat using your system username. To change connection parametres, go through the backend/pkg/database/connection.go file

5. Install dependencies

go mod download

5. Start server

# cd backend/cmd
go run main.go

1. Install node package manager

npm install npm@latest -g

2. Start React server

# cd frontend
npm start

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If you have any intentions that would make this project better, fork the repo and create pull request

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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Sergey Molchanov - @ssergomol - [email protected]

Project Link: https://github.com/ssergomol/Realtime-Chat

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