Parler

A chatroom app where all app users are in a single chat room!

Users can upvote or downvote messages

the website is built with React TS and the backend is built using Go using Gin framework

clients open a websocket with the sever in order to get real time updates of new messages. currently Votes are not updated in real time, users need to reload the page

setup:

Frontend:

## from root directory
cd client

# Run the image in detached mode 
sudo docker compose up -d

Backend:

create a .env file with the following variables and place it in /server

#.env
GIN_MODE=release
TOKEN_HOUR_LIFESPAN=4
JWT_SECRET=256-bit random secret key
DATABASE_HOST=
POSTGRES_USER=
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=
POSTGRES_NAME=

## from root directory
cd server

to run manually user docker compose

sudo docker compose up -d