Instant messaging websocket server with unique features. Backend in PHP with Swoole framework. Wire transport is JSON over websocket. Persistant storage is PostgreSQL.
Fast, asynchronous and event-driven backend service that can solve the problem of embedding chat in your application. It's easy to deploy and support.
- Online marketplace
- On-demand services
- Banking
- Online gaming
- Online dating
- Enterprice communication
- Social communities
- Crypto P2P exchange
- Instant messaging via websocket
- Group chats
- Secret chats
- Attachments support
- Message encryption
- User with admin role can read all non secret chats and write messages in it (it can be used to provide some kind of support to your service)
- Users blocking
- Third party authentication (you should make an http endpoint on your main service)
- Message editing
- Message deleting (for all and locally for you)
- Support for custom events via websocket (it can be used to add your new custom features to the chat)
- Emoji support 😋
- Embedded FTP server
- Auto renewing SSL (Let's encrypt)
- HTTP requests optimization
- High request proccess speed (around 110515 requests/sec on low-end server)
- Automatic database backup
- Stability and restart on fail
- Easy and fast deploy
- Works as an independent service
- Rewrite attachments module to add support of multiple attachment to one message
- Fix some group chat bugs
- Docker compose
- Linux server
- Domain
Read API documentation
From command line run:
cd /var/www/
git clone https://github.com/SamLatsin/crypto-chat.git
After that go project folder and create .env file:
cd crypto-chat/
touch .env
Put this lines in your .env file and provide your fields data:
PG_DBNAME=chat
PG_USER={PostgreSQL username}
PG_PASSWORD={PostgreSQL password}
FTP_USER={FTP username}
FTP_PASSWORD={FTP password}
API_KEY={API key for connecting to external server with users database }
REST_AUTH_URL={URL to authentificate user in websocket}
ENCRYPT_KEY={Key to encrypt messages on server}
For additional help with API_KEY and REST_AUTH_URL see this in documentation
The next step is to configure SSL Certificate. Open init-letsencrypt.sh in project folder and change {DOMAIN} to your domain name. Repeat the same for file nginx-default.conf.
Run application in project folder:
docker compose up
Crypto-chat is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license