Command line chat app built in Golang 1.13 with tcp sockets and a custom binary protocol.
Currently a work in progress.
- Chat with other people using the command line!
- 256 Chat rooms available. (numbered 0-255)
- 200 character limit per message
- Chat messages are only broadcast to members of the same chat room.
- Utilizes a TLV style binary protocol to encode and decode messages.
- Build and run the executable using
go run config.go -mode=server -port=#### - When you want to stop the server, simply press ctrl+c. (This will disconnect all clients immediately!)
- Build and run the executable using
go run config.go -mode=client -address=your.address.goes.here:#### - Enter a username (3+ characters).
- Enter a desired chat room number (0-255).
- Chat!
- When you're finished, simply press ctrl+c or the escape key to quit.
Here are some other repositories that I created to test out new libraries, or explore some concepts
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https://github.com/Mecope1/serialization_comparison: Compares benchmarks for encoding and decoding the chat app's TLV protocol to Json and MessagePack for some sample payloads.
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https://github.com/Mecope1/go-tui-testing: Sandbox where I played around with the Termui library to see how I could use it in the chat app.
- Add in additional tests
- Make error handling even more robust
- Allow users to easily join a different room
- Integrate a database to store chat logs
- Setup auth system, allowing persistent users
- Allow users to send requests to my unit-converter api/ web app from the chat app
These are places that I had read from and that I found very helpful in building this.
- gobyexample.com
- golangbot.com
- https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/tutorial/Protocols-Lesson-2-Binary-and-the-Internet-Protocol
- https://levelup.gitconnected.com/binary-encoding-of-variable-length-options-with-golang-4481ff59e767
- https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2017/05/network-sockets-with-the-go-programming-language/
- https://medium.com/johnshenk77/create-a-simple-chat-application-in-go-using-websocket-d2cb387db836
- https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/campbell/cs60/socketprogramming.html
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2681267/what-is-the-fundamental-difference-between-websockets-and-pure-tcp?lq=1
- https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmfYeDhGH9bZzihBUDEQbCbTc5k5FZKURMUoUvfmc27BwL/architecture/protocol_layers.html
- https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showthread/comp.arch.embedded/178636-1.php