WhisperWave

A simple chat application written in Golang

About

WhisperWave is an application that emerged as a hobby project to understand and simulate real-time chat applications. To understand in detail, the project structure, data flow and the thinking process behind the database design, click on the medium post.

System Design

DataBase Design

Tech Stack

Project Setup

To set up the project, clone the repository by typing:
```
git clone
```
Install all the golang modules declared in go.mod file using:
```
go mod download
```
Follow the official RabbitMQ documentation or visit dockerhub to download the server image:
```
docker pull rabbitmq:3.12-management
```

Run the RabbitMQ docker container and map it to the port of your liking:

docker run -d --hostname [your-hostname] --name [docker-server-name] -p [service-port]:5672 -p [management-port]:15672 rabbitmq:3.12-management

Confgure AWS Credentials using AWS CLI:
```
aws configure
```
Enter the root directory of the project where the MakeFile is present and type:
```
make
```