Y

A full stack chat application

Why build Y?

I've always been interested in building a chat client for some reason and I'm using this as an opportunity to get experience using sockets and get more experience w/ DOM manipulation and vanilla JavaScript instead of jumping straight to a framework.

That.. and because y not ;)

The API

Method	Path	Description
❌ GET	/api/users/{room_name}	requests a list of users for a given room
❌ GET	/api/user/{user_id}	requests details of a specific user
✅ GET	/api/messages/{room_name}	requests the messages for a given room
✅ GET	/api/rooms	requests a list of rooms
❌ POST	/api/user	creates a user
✅ POST	/api/message	submits a message for a given room
✅ POST	/api/room/{room_name}	creates a room
❌ DELETE	/api/message/{message_id}	deletes a message with a given ID
✅ DELETE	/api/messages/{room_name}	deletes all messages in a given room
✅ DELETE	/api/room/{room_name}	deletes a room

✅ = Implemented
❌ = Not yet implemented

Notes

At this point I'm not worried about paginating results and will providingt he complete list for list queries (get messages, get users, etc..)

If I do implement pagination It'll likely be the get messages API for obvious reasons.

In order to keep costs down messages will be given a TTL so they will only be stored for a period of time.

Local Development Notes

Initial MongoDB setup

// Add instructions to install MongoDB
// then...

• Ensure the following conf file mongod.conf is located at /usr/local/etc/ You may need to make sure the directories defined at storage.dbPath and systemLog.path exist

processManagement:
   fork: true
net:
   bindIp: localhost
   port: 27017
storage:
   dbPath: data/db
systemLog:
   destination: file
   path: "data/log/mongodb/mongod.log"
   logAppend: true

Starting Mongo Daemon (mongod)

mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf