Chat

a Fork of https://github.com/serverpod/serverpod/tree/main/examples/chat

This example showcases Serverpod's chat and auth modules. It demonstrates how to build a basic chat application with multiple chat channels.

To run the example on your local machine, make sure you have Serverpod installed on your system. Then start the Docker containers associated with the project.

cd chat/chat_server
docker compose up --build --detach

Then apply the database migrations to the database by running the following command from the chat_server directory:

dart bin/main.dart --apply-migrations -r maintenance

With the database tables installed, you can now start the server. Do this by running the following command from the chat_server directory:

dart bin/main.dart

Finally, start the Flutter app by changing into the chat_flutter directory and running the flutter run command:

cd chat/chat_flutter
flutter run -d chrome

If you want to run the example on a platform other than Chrome, you will need to run flutter create . to create projects for the different platforms. For MacOS, you will need to update the credentials for the app to access the server from your settings in Xcode.

When you are finished, you can shut down Serverpod with Ctrl-C, then stop Postgres and Redis.

docker compose stop

To completely clear all Docker containers, run:

docker compose down -v

If you want to connect to the local database from pgsql or another Postgres tool use these credentials:

host: localhost
user: postgres
database: chat
password: postgres_password