GopherTalk is a multi-user chat powered by GO to explore its standard library and features like sockets, goroutines, channels and sync package.

The project was two binaries, the server located in {project-dir}/cmd/server.go and the client in {project-dir}/cmd/client.go

The server is responsible to maintain the channels with your clients open, and, redirect the messages to them.

The traffic between client-server-client is done by payloads in JSON formats established in the package internal / dto

Was use pure Socket channel to accept new clients. No specific protocol was used for communication.

The client just connect in the server (informed when start) and login with an uniq username, there is no authentication. If the username was exists in the server, its reject and asked to reconnect.

The client can talk with all people in the server or a specific user defined by command

• /help : to show the help message
• /users : for list connected users
• /to {user} : to define the user to send the message
• /all : to define all people to send the message

Build the project

>make build

Run the server at port 8080:

>make run-server

Run client:

>make run-client

Enjoy!

Pull Requests are welcome. For important changes, open an 'issue' first to discuss what you would like to change. Be sure to update tests as appropriate.

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