rizasghari/socketchatbackend-golang

Web Socket Based Chat App (Backend)

Web Socket based Chat App

A Golang-based web application leveraging the Gin framework for HTTP server functionalities, Gorilla/Websocket for real-time communication, PostgreSQL for database management, MinIO for file storage, and Redis for message brokering and caching. The application is containerized using Docker Compose for seamless deployment.

Introduction

This project is a scalable and performant web application built with Golang. It utilizes Gin for its HTTP server capabilities, Gorilla/Websocket for handling WebSocket connections, PostgreSQL for relational data storage, MinIO for object storage, and Redis for both caching and message brokering. Docker Compose is used to manage the application's containerization and orchestration.

Features

• Golang: High-performance programming language.
• Gin: Fast and lightweight HTTP web framework.
• Gorilla/Websocket: Robust WebSocket library.
• PostgreSQL: Powerful and reliable database system.
• MinIO: High-performance object storage.
• Redis: In-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker.
• Docker Compose: Tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications.
• Swagger Dpcumentation: Documentes all rest APIs.