Xoxa - Zulu for chat

This is a simple websocket based chat app. The goal was to build a simple chat app and learn about websocket along the way.

Screenshots

Home page

Chat page 1

Chat page 2

Tech Used

• Spring boot
• MongoDB
• React JS
• WebSocket
• STOMP messaging protocol
• Memory based message broker

Steps to run the app

Run ./mvnw spring-boot:run

Starts the application

Run the xoxa-client

Run without xoxa-client (not functional)

localhost:8080 also serves up a page from src/main/resources/static/app.js which can be used to just check the app.

ISSUES

• Messages are not being saved to database when being sent from the React UI. But if the messages are sent from src/main/resources/static/app.js, the messages are saved.