Gabe

Description

Gabe is a micro-service, real-time chat app in order to be my Internet Engineering course project The name was inspired from the name "Gabriel", The Archangel

Tech Stack

• Backend:
  • Auth Service : Echo (a Golang framework)
  • Chat Service : NestJs (a NodeJS framework)
• FrontEnd:
  • ReactJs
• Data Base As A service
  • MongoDB Atlas
• Real-Time data transfer
  • Socket.io
• Auth method
  • JWT

Screenshots

How to Run

Preapare config and .env files

• AuthService:

  in AuthService directory, go to /configs and create a conf.yaml file with structure like below:

      Database:
        URI : <your atlas db uri>
        Name : <your db name>
      JWTKEY: <your jwt authentication key>
  

• chat-service:

  the same data should be given to chat service (nest app) as well. in chat-service directory, create a .env file with structure like below:

    DATABSE_URI=<your atlas db uri>
    DATABASE_NAME=<your db name>
    JWTKEY=<your jwt authentication key>
  

Run App

• via powershell

  in order to run the app using the powershell script, open a powershell window in the app directory and execute this command:

    .\app-runner.ps1
  

• via docker-compose

  there are some issues in the dockerfiles, but you still can use command below to run the backend services:

    docker-compose up -d --build
  

  and run the frontend app using these commands:

    npm install
    npm run dev