A basic chat server.

See video YouTube

• A MongoDB database named chat with collections: accounts, messages.

• Rust & Cargo.

• An environment variable for the JWT secret key: JWT_SECRET_PRIMARY. This can contain any string you want, however it is recommended to be a 64 character cryptographically generated string. For security purposes, you should regenerate this string before each cargo run. Please note: This is not meant to be a secure chat platform LOL! It's a PoC / hobby project!

If on Mac or Linux, first rename config.sh.template to config.sh with mv config.sh.template config.sh.

Edit config.sh, filling in the details for your MongoDB cluster.

Permit the current user to execute config.sh with chmod +x config.sh.

Devl: source config.sh; cargo run

Prod: source config.sh; cargo run --release

If on Windows, first rename config.ps1.template to config.ps1 with Rename-Item "config.ps1.template config.ps1".

Edit config.ps1, filling in the details for your MongoDB cluster.

Devl: .\config.ps1; cargo run

Prod: .\config.ps1; cargo run --release