chat

chat server

A very simple chat server using github.com/gorilla/websocket

• a user can send a private message to another user
• a user can broadcast a message to all users currently online

Build

In order to build/run the server:

$ go run main.go

Example

Use the client/client.go to connect to server and send a message.

$ cd client

# Start "user2" client
$ go run client.go "user2" "" ""

# Send a message "from user1" from "user1" to "user2"
$ go run client.go "user1" "user2" "from user1"

To broadcast a message to all connected users

$ cd client

# Start "user2" client
$ go run client.go "user2" "" ""

# Start "user3" client
$ go run client.go "user3" "" ""

# Broadcast a message "from user1" from "user1" to all connected users
$ go run client.go "user1" "GLOBAL" "from user1"