Chat Service Documentation

✨ Requirements

General

• allow users to have a private conversation
• allow users to have a group conversation
• each user can have their own contact list

Websocket

• handle stickiness of the user's session
• allow users to connect with multiple sessions
• return count of unread messages on connect
• notify users when their messages are read
• send message
• delete message
• receive events from the server
• send actions to the server

GraphQL

• mark messages as read
• query messages
• handle blocking users

Rules

• cannot contain uncensored word
• cannot message anyone if you get reported 10 times

🔮 Future Features

• admin panel
  • UI interface to interact with settings like banned users, banned usernames, and such
• detect spammers
• ability to send files
• when adding people to a chatroom send invitation first

Postgres DB

Redis DB