chat_app

Headers include the main components needed for chat app buildout. There are many different ways to go about making your chat app.

##Working Go Environment See Go Tutorial

##Server How to implement the server app?
Possibilities:

• using the http package included with the Go distribution

###Websocket

• https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/net/websocket
• this one written for Go: https://github.com/gorilla/websocket
• minimalist websocket for Go: github.com/olahol/melody

##Client (Front-End) Lots of to choose from.

• html file with Jquery/Node/other to manipulate objects in the browser?
• rely solely on Go's extensive standard libraries net/http and others
• nonstandard libraries: HTTP web framework written in Go https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin
• Lots of creative license here for front end component of hackathon.

##OTHER

• If you already have a Go environment up-and-running, why not consider a dockerfile for your setup to keep your system clean?
• Time Data Once the chat server is up and running, we need to populate a list of messages from past and future self to be sent to ourselves, either at specific times or on demand.
• Redis as a message broker & db + Go + Redigo (redis client library for Go): https://github.com/garyburd/redigo