Chat Backend

Create a WebSocket Server you own this product

This project is part of the liveProject series WebSocket-based Chat Backend in Go
prerequisites
basic Go • Gorilla WebSocket library
skills learned
creating a WebSocket server • using map as an in-memory store
Amit Saha
1 week · 4-6 hours per week · BEGINNER
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In this liveProject, you’ll create the backend for a company support live chat feature using the WebSockets framework. This backend will form the foundation of a new customer service for your company. You’ll implement a backend that can receive requests from browsers and set up WebSocket connections between customers and support personnel. You’ll even preserve the chat histories.

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Amit Saha

Amit Saha is a software engineer at Atlassian in Sydney, Australia. He’s the author of Practical Go: Building Scalable Network and Non-Network Applications (Wiley, 2021), Doing Math with Python: Use Programming to Explore Algebra, Statistics, Calculus, and More! (No Starch Press, 2015), and Write Your First Program (PHI Learning, 2013). His other writings have been published in technical magazines, conference proceedings, and research journals. He can be found online at https://echorand.me.

prerequisites

This liveProject is for Go programmers who are comfortable with the language’s basics. To begin this liveProject, you will need to be familiar with the following:


TOOLS
  • Basic Go
  • Basic Javascript, HTML, and CSS
  • Basic Gorilla WebSocket library

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In this liveProject, you’ll learn to use both the WebSocket standard library packages and a community-maintained package called Gorilla WebSocket to build a chat app backend. You’ll also embed HTML/JavaScript/CSS files into your application and create an HTTP server that will serve these files.


  • Create a WebSocket server
  • Use map as an in-memory store

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