Basic Chat App

This is a learning project containing a super basic websocket-based chat app.

Purpose

• Revisit FastAPI
• Learn SolidJS and compare with React
• Refresh TailwindCSS skills
• Refresh WebSocket skills

Stack

• FastAPI
• SolidJS
• Tailwind CSS
• WebSocket
• TOML for settings

Installation and Running

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11 (older versions untested but might work)
• poetry
• Node/npm

Installation

git clone [email protected]:wylee/chat.git
cd chat
poetry install
npm install
poetry shell

Runnning

run api

# In another terminal
run ui 

Now you can open multiple browser tabs, go to http://localhost:3000/, set a username in each tab, and chat with yourself.