The original concept was to try and make two separate docker images that cna hook into a generic database image to store the chatlog.
Simple application should be able to be put together with a lightweight app structure so chose Svelte as it is fast and simple while having a lot of the modern power of frameworks
GraphQL is a very powerful server layer that has a lot of built-in cascading resoltion of data (eg users in messages) and inbuild support for realtime subscriptions through subscriptions, so seemed like a nice fit.
- ✔ GraphQL with in memory storage for chat logs and users
- ✔ Svelte app that lets you log in as a new user and post messages
- ✔ Subscriptions with web sockets for realtime updates
- ✔ Scroll on message
- ✔ Testing for svelte
- ✔ External database for storage
- ❌ Testing for graphql
- ❌ Dockerisation
- ❌ DataLoaders for database connection
- ❌ Error handling in app
To get the database up and running use docker-compose -f docker.yml up.
Each section (server and client) should run yarn build to build the distribution version and yarn start to serve it.
Currently GraphQL is hosted on http://localhost:3000 and the application is on http://localhost:5000.
Obviously the db needs to be running for the server and both need to be running or the client will complain.
For dev work there is yarn dev in both that should start it up with a local watch for changes.