Real-Time Messaging API

Overview

The Real-Time Messaging API is a robust messaging solution designed to facilitate real-time communication between users or applications. It provides a seamless experience for sending and receiving messages instantly.

This API leverages WebSockets to establish a persistent, bidirectional communication channel between clients and servers, ensuring efficient message delivery with minimal latency. It supports various features such as user authentication, presence detection.

Getting Started

To get started with the Real-Time Messaging API, follow these steps:

1. Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/lovistawiah/chat-api.git

2. Install Dependencies

npm install

3. Create .env file in the root dir and add key/value pair

MONGO_URI=value
JWT_SECRET=value

4. Start dev server

npm run dev

Issue starting dev server

npm install nodemon

or

edit package.json file

- nodemon dist/main.js
+ node dist/main.js

Features

• Real-Time Communication: Establish instant, bidirectional communication between clients and servers.
• WebSocket Support: Utilize WebSockets for persistent connections, enabling real-time message delivery.
• User Authentication: Authenticate users to ensure secure access to messaging services.
• Presence Detection: Monitor user presence to determine online/offline status.
• Message History: Retrieve message history for seamless conversation continuity.
• Secure Socket: Using jsonweb token as secure handshake protocol.

Next Major Features

• Message Encryption: Encrypt messages to ensure data privacy and security.
• Media Share: Sharing of media data.
• Vide/Audio Call: Making of video and audio calls at low latency.
• Passkeys: Passkeys as multi factor authentication.
• Group chats : support for more than two users in chat.