Another rust chat

TCP socket based chat built in Rust programming language
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I built this chat to improve my skills on Rust programming language. feel free to use it.

The server listens on 127.0.0.1:8080.

Each connected client is handled in a separate thread.

The clients vector contains all connected clients' streams and is wrapped in an Arc<Mutex<>> for thread safety. When a message is received from a client, it's broadcasted to all other connected clients.

When a client disconnects, its stream is removed from the clients vector.

Remember, this is still a simple example and doesn't handle all edge cases, such as errors during read/write operations or handling disconnected clients gracefully. In production-level code, you'd want to add more error handling and robustness features.

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Built With

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

Rust toolkit installed. please refer to Rust documentation

Installation

build and run

$ cargo build

If you want to execute locally in your network on several computers you might need to allow the used port on your local firewall.

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Usage

• start the server (inside chat-server folder)

$ cargo run

• start the chat clients (inside chat-client folder)

$ cargo run

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Roadmap

• [ v ] basic server and client
• Change server concurrency pattern
• Add prompt to client
• create client dedicated structures

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

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Contact

Project Link: https://github.com/pedromiguelmiranda/another-rust-chat

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