gRPC-Chat-App

gRPC based terminal-2-terminal based chat app

gRPC Chat Application

• This application is an implementation of a client-server connection using gRPC remote protocol connection
• Unlike HTTP, gRPC provides a bi-directional connection so that both client and server can stream data once connected.
• gRPC uses HTTP2 internally for blazing fast connectivity, speeding connection 200 - 500%

• Server is a bidi streaming implementation, while client connects through with the server and subscribes to all the chat messages of other clients, including itself :D.

Installing it in your system

• Make sure you have go installed in your machine. You can check that using

$ go version

If not installed go to Go install docs

• Else, Clone this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/yashrsharma44/grpc-chat-app.git

• To start the server change the directory to grpc-chatapp/server/ and run

$ cd grpc-chatapp/server/
$ make run

It will install the missing dependencies, build the binary and run the executable.

• To do the same with the client, change the directory to grpc-chatapp/client/ and run the previous command.

$ cd grpc-chatapp/client/
$ make run

• To get more info about the make command, run make help. It will display:

Choose a command run in server:

  install   Install missing dependencies. Runs `go get` internally.
  build     Building the binary.
  run       Build and run the binary
  exec      Run given command, wrapped with custom GOPATH.
  clean     Clean build files. Runs `go clean` internally.

Support

If there are any issues with the application, please create an issue.
Open Source Project made with love by Yash Sharma @yashrsharma44.