🗨️ LanChat App

Table of Contents

1. Desciption
2. Features
3. Tech Stack
4. Architecture
5. Running the App

📌 Description

This is a real-time group chat application built in Go that enables multiple users to communicate via a shared message channel. Messages are broadcast to all connected users using a fanout pattern through RabbitMQ, ensuring scalable and asynchronous communication. Each message is also persistently stored in a PostgreSQL database for historical access and analysis.

✅ Features

• Real-time messaging using RabbitMQ (fanout exchange)
• Persistent message storage in PostgreSQL
• Easy inspection and management with pgAdmin
• Docker Compose setup for rapid development
• Built with performance and scalability in mind using Go

🛠️ Tech Stack

Component	Technology
Backend	Go
Message Broker	RabbitMQ
Database	PostgreSQL
DB GUI	pgAdmin
Containerization	Docker

📐 Architecture

🚀 Running the Application

The requirements for running this application are Go and Docker

1. Clone the repo and enter the folder

   git clone https://github.com/JuanMartinCoder/LanChat/

   cd LanChat/

2. You will need the dependencies used

   go mod tidy

3. Start the services with the script

   ./servicesUp start

4. Connect to the chat with the main app

   go run ./cmd/main.go

5. To shutdown the services do

   ./servicesUp stop