gochat

Introduction

Gochat is a small IRC-like chat client and server in Go, for practice only. Multiple clients connect to a single server and can chat in a unique channel.

It uses protobuf to serialize the messages.

Installation

Use go get, or clone the repository and install gochatclient and gochatserver separately with go install.

Both gochatserver and gochatclient accept host and port command line variables, for example: gochaclient -host localhost -port 8081.

Dependencies

Only Go is required. The compiled source protobuf file is already included in project.

TODO list

• Client reconnection in case of connection loss