Akka-PubSub-Chatroom

Try Akka-PubSub-Chatroom :

Introduction

This project use Scala and Akka build a Publish/Subscribe Chatroom. Redis for handle all members of each topic.

This Chatroom include :

• Choosable Topic.
• Group chat.
• Member list for each topic.
• Boardcast normal messages.
• Boardcasting limit time message (Message will expire after 10 second).

Backend

• Scala : Core language.
• Akka : Handle user's chat message delivery and Chatroom system.
• Redis : Handle the member list with each topic.

Frontend

• HTML : Chat room layout.
• CSS : Chat room style.
• JavaScript : Handle chat room websocket and reactive with users.

Server

Heroku : It's a PaaS platform. More info here : Heroku

Add to build.sbt

enablePlugins(JavaAppPackaging)

Add to project/plugin.sbt

addSbtPlugin("com.heroku" % "sbt-heroku" % "1.0.0")
addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-native-packager" % "1.0.3")

Dependency

Add to build.sbt

lazy val akkaVersion = "2.4.2"
libraryDependencies ++=
    Seq(
        "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-http-experimental" % akkaVersion,
        "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-cluster" % akkaVersion,
        "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-cluster-tools" % akkaVersion,
        "redis.clients" % "jedis" % "2.0.0"
    )

Run local

> sbt run

It should run on : http://localhost:8188