ws_live_chat_server

Live Chat Server Example with Pure Websockets, Multiple lightweight container node servers with docker, Redis (Pub & Sub) & Load Balancing with Nginx

Setup

1. Make sure have been already installed docker & docker-compose in your OS (Mac OS / Linux / Windows).

2. You can build your own images :

   docker build -t <yourusername/yourimagename>:addyourtag .

   And change image src ("lb" service section) in docker-compose.yml configuration with your images.

   Or you can pull from my images hosted in Docker Hub :

   docker pull pickezdocker/ws_live_chat_server:0.1

3. Run Commands :

   docker-compose up

   add -d parameter if want to running on background.

   Reverse Proxy will run in port 8080

Client code example

1. Spin up 2 or more window / tab browsers
2. Then create new Websocket instances each browser with ex. Javascript code :

// Initialize web socket instance
const webSocket = new WebSocket("ws://localhost:8080")

// Create "onmessage" events
webSocket.onmessage = (message)= > console.log(`You receive the messages : ${message.data}`)

// Try to send a message
webSocket.send("<yourmessagehere>")

3. Try to send message each other

PS : It is just in dev mode, not ready for production.