A simple real-time chatroom application built with Go and React.

• Real-time messaging using WebSockets
• Support for multiple chatrooms
• User accounts with JWT authentication
• RESTful API
• Server events/notifications via WebSocket
• Data persistence (rooms, chat history, etc.)
• User-friendly web interface
• Metrics

• Golang
• Gorilla WebSocket
• JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
• PostgreSQL
• Testify (testing framework)
• React, React Router
• CSS
• Javascript
• Docker (development)
• Terraform
• AWS
• Nginx

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/npezzotti/gochat.git
cd gochat

Install dependencies:

go get ./...

Build and run the application:

make run

Open your browser: Visit http://localhost:8080

gochat/
├── cmd/
├── frontend/
├── internal/
└── terraform/

• cmd/server: Main entrypoint of the server
• frontend/: React applicaiton and other JS comprising the UI
• internal/api: REST API, HTTP handlers, middleware, and authentication
• internal/config: Configuration
• internal/database/: Database interfaces and migrations
• internal/server/: Chat server
• internal/stats/: Metrics system
• internal/testutil/: Test utils
• internal/types/: Types used by both the chat server and API
• terraform/: Terraform code and scripts used to provision infrastucture in AWS and deploy application

I created this project to deepen my understanding of real-time web applications and Go's concurrency model. It also serves as a showcase of my ability to design and implement scalable backend systems.