chat-app

See Live Demo: https://costingh.github.io/chat-app

Description

This is a chat application built using React (create-react-app), Spring Boot, MongoDB. It uses Web Sockets for real time chatting and displaying online users.

Test credentials:

• USERNAME: user-test
• PASSWORD: password-test

Chatting in real time

• User can signup new account, or login with username & password.
• By User’s role (admin, moderator, user), we authorize the User to access resources (role-based Authorization)
• User can add friends (if they have accounts)
• User can send private messages to contacts in his list

Test credentials:

• USERNAME: user-test
• PASSWORD: password-test

AuthController

Methods	Urls	Actions
POST	/api/auth/signup	signup new account
POST	/api/auth/signin	login an account
GET	/api/auth/all	access all available contacts
GET	/api/auth/user/{userId}	access a specific user
POST	/api/auth/user/update-status	update user.status field online

AuthController

Methods	Urls	Actions
GET	/api/test/all	retrieve public content
GET	/api/test/user	access User’s content
GET	/api/test/mod	access Moderator’s content
GET	/api/test/admin	access Admin’s content

ConversationsController

Methods	Urls	Actions
GET	/api/conversation/all	get all existing conversations
POST	/api/conversation/add	create new conversation
GET	/api/conversation/all/{userId}	get all conversations of an id
GET	/api/conversation/{conversationId}	get a conversation
DELETE	/api/conversation/delete{conversationId{	delete a conversation by id

MessagesController

Methods	Urls	Actions
GET	/api/messages/all-messages/{conversationId}	get all messages from a conversation
GET	/api/messages//last-message/{conversationId}	get last message from a conversation

– Spring Security will manage cors, csrf, session, rules for protected resources, authentication & authorization along with exception handler. – The database we will use is MongoDB which can be accessed by the help of Spring Data MongoDB.