sztheory/lqchatex

[mirror] Live Qchatex, an open sourced web application done by Fiqus for educational and experimental purposes.

Live Qchatex

Open sourced web application done by Fiqus for educational and experimental purposes.

The idea was to research and practice about Phoenix LiveView implementation and to play around a little with Phoenix PubSub + Presence for sockets, using Memento as Elixir wrapper to Erlang Mnesia for data storage.

Live Qchatex is a very simple and quick chat engine that allows you to create and join chat rooms on-the-fly.
Don't need to register, just enter a nickname and you are ready to go!
NOTE: All chats, messages and users are automatically deleted after a certain period of inactivity.

App overview PDF: lqchatex-overview.pdf

Live running demo at: https://lqchatex.fiqus.coop/

Hosted by gigalixir.

Development

Pre-requisites

You will have to install:

• Elixir 1.8 or later
• Erlang/OTP 20 or later
• Node.js 5 or later

Start the server

• Install dependencies with mix deps.get
• Install Node.js dependencies with cd assets && npm install
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server

You can now visit http://localhost:4000 from your browser!

Test

• mix test - run the tests
• mix coverage - for test coverage

Mnesia

• mix mnesia.reset - remove the mnesia storage directory from disk