Echo

A simple, no distractions Chat App, meant to run straight from the terminal

Echo is a terminal-user-interface (TUI) chat application for lightweight and fast chatting, to be run directly from the terminal - no switching to an ugly , counterintuitive GUI based app running on a browser or a webapplet

Tech Stack

Server

- Node.js + Express 
- Mongoose + MongoDB Atlas 

Client

- Go + Bubbletea

Database

- MongoDB Atlas 
    - Users
    - Messages 

Base Project Structure

Echo/
├── CONTRIBUTING.md           -> Guidelines
├── README.md                 -> Project Overview
│ 
├── client                    -> Client Application Code
│ 
├── contributors              -> Contributor Records
│   
└── server                    -> Chat Server + Backend 

this README will be updated accordingly.

Quick Start

Before starting - check out our CONTRIBUTING.md to get a refresher on contribution and general workflow.

Project Setup:

After forking and cloning the project, install the following dependencies:

NOTE : The project utilizes node.js and Javascript for the backend server, and go for the frontend. Before downloading the following dependencies, make sure that yoru machine has up-to-date versions of them!

• Within /server

npm install express ws cors
npm install --save-dev nodemon

• Within /client

go get github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
go get github.com/gorilla/websocket

Contact

Reach out to me via Discord! ID: Washikiballa-San

Acknowledgements