dash-firestore-chat

A live chat example app to demonstrate dash-socketio capabilities

Features

• Create/join chat rooms
• Live chat with other connected users
• Get notified when other users join/leave the chat
• Count of connected users

This uses firestore for both the database layer as well as a message queue to notify the Dash server instance of live changes.

Run locally:

In a terminal, start the Firestore emulator:

gcloud emulators firestore start --host-port=localhost:8080 --project=demo

In another terminal, run the Dash app:

python firestore_chat/app.py