You can find HugoChat here!
HugoChat is a simple chat platform for everyone.
There is no need to create an account, just open it and start. You can change your name by clicking on yourself on the
right side.
There are many rooms where you can write, and you can even create new rooms.
You can also create an unlisted room that can only be accessed directly by entering the url.
Your user account is stored temporarily in session storage and gets deleted from the server when you remain offline for more than 10 seconds.
HugoChat stores all its messages forever, but the messages get partly anonymized after the sender user account was deleted. Content, username (not uniquely identifiable) and timestamp are stored.
HugoChat is also not very secure, one can easily do things as if they were another user. This is not a very big problem though because all userId info is only temporary.
- Spring Boot REST API
- React/Typescript with create-react-app
- PostgreSQL
What you need:
- Java (to run the backend)
- Docker (postgres image for the database)
- NodeJS (for the frontend)
- Yarn (nodejs package manager)
Clone the repository.
Docker Container run:
docker run -d -p 5432:5432 --name HugoChat -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=huGO123.corsBOSS postgres
to reset the db:
docker stop HugoChat
docker rm HugoChat
docker run -d -p 5432:5432 --name HugoChat -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=huGO123.corsBOSS postgres
docker attach HugoChatThen, build and run the Spring Boot backend.
gradlew bootRun
Lastly, either run the react app with
yarn start
or build it first with
yarn build
and then serve it on a webserver or locally with
serve -s build
Make sure that the url in hugo-client/src/services/AxiosUtility.ts leads to the backend and the ports are open