tatsumaki-chat

Tatsumaki Chat

A real-time chat application built with Go, featuring SSE communications, Redis pub/sub for realtime messaging and PostgreSQL for data persistence.

🚀 Features

• User authentication with JWT tokens
• Real-time messaging using Server-Sent Events (SSE)
• Multi-user chat rooms with member management
• Unread message tracking with real-time notifications
• Message persistence with PostgreSQL
• Redis pub/sub to track realtime events (new unread message, mark as read)

🏗️ Architecture

Tech Stack

• Language: Go
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Pub-Sub: Redis
• Real-time Communication: Server-Sent Events (SSE)
• HTTP Router: Go's native net/http with http.ServeMux

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Go 1.23 or higher
• Docker and Docker Compose
• PostgreSQL (via Docker)
• Redis (via Docker)

Environment Setup

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/PandaX185/tatsumaki-chat.git
cd tatsumaki-chat

1. Create .env file:

DB_USER=
DB_PASS=
DB_HOST=
DB_NAME=
DB_SSLMODE=
PORT=
REDIS_URL=

1. You can simply run:

make run-all

The server will start on http://localhost:8080

📝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.