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Ega Prasetya
Ega Prasetya

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Realtime Chat App - Golang

So in this chapter, we will to learn how to create chat app with Gorilla web socket, u should to download library with go get -u github.com/gorilla/websocket. So let`s do it.

BACKEND

Create file main.go, we will to create Socket Server first.

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Next create 3 struct like this.

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Next, create function main() its contents display template view index.html.

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Next, create function handleIO()

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Last, create function ejectConnection() & broadcastMessage().

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FRONTEND

Create file index.html and follow this code

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Next, we also to add style css.

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And then last add also javascript.

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TESTING

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Full Source Code in here

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