A fast & fun way to build portable cloud-native applications

Project Description

A basic back-end for a messaging app. Useful as a functioning WebSocket example that you can use as a foundation for more advanced applications.

Usage

Step 1: Install Nitric

Follow the steps in the installation guide

Step 2: Run your Nitric project locally

yarn install
nitric start

Step 3: Test the API

Using your favourite Websocket tool such as Postman, connect to your Websocket endpoint, by default this is - ws://localhost:4001

Then simply send messages from multiple client connections.

About Nitric

Nitric is a framework for rapid development of cloud-native and serverless applications. Define your apps in terms of the resources they need, then write the code for serverless function based APIs, event subscribers and scheduled jobs.

Apps built with Nitric can be deployed to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud all from the same code base so you can focus on your products, not your cloud provider.

Nitric makes it easy to:

Create smart serverless functions and APIs
Build reliable distributed apps that use events and/or queues
Securely store and retrieve secrets
Read and write files from buckets

Documentation

The full documentation is available at nitric.io/docs.

We're completely open-source and encourage code contributions.

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