examples/websockets/chat-actorless

WebSocket Chat (actor-less)

Multi-room WebSocket chat server using actix-ws.

Usage

Server

cd websockets/echo-actorless
cargo run
# starting HTTP server at http://localhost:8080

Browser Client

Go to http://localhost:8080/ in a browser.

CLI Client

# using `websocat` (https://github.com/vi/websocat)
websocat -v --ping-interval=2 ws://127.0.0.1:8080/ws

Chat Commands

Once connected, the following slash commands can be sent:

• /list: list all available rooms
• /join name: join room, if room does not exist, create new one
• /name name: set session name

Sending a plain string will broadcast that message to all peers in same room.