This is an attempt at a slightly-more-involved-but-still-small-enough-to-be-an-example example of a chat server using tokio. For a less involved chat server example, see the chat server example from tokio-core. There are three crates present here:

• tokio-chat-common provides message data types and codecs for client/server communication
• tokio-chat-server has hopefully well-annotated source code (PRs/feedback welcome!)
• tokio-chat-client has slightly-less-well-annotated source code and provides a Cursive-based textual interface to the server.

Compiling tokio-chat-common - and therefore running either the client or server - requires procedural macros because of its use of serde, and so requires Rust 1.15 or later (which is still in beta at the time of this writing). If you're using rustup, something like this should work:

cd tokio-chat-server
rustup run beta cargo run

and then in another window:

cd tokio-chat-client
rustup run beta cargo run -- username1

(and possibly the above multiple times, probably with different usernames if you want to be able to tell them apart). If all goes well, you should be able to type in the client windows and see something like this:

Author

John Gallagher, [email protected]

License

tokio-chat-example is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.