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Chat Room App

This API was built to support the chat_app_FE. In the /api folder you will find the routes for rooms and users. This being a FastAPI app, you will also be able to get quick documenatation on the routes and request types after getting it up and running.

This app uses:

• Anaconda (for Python environemnt management)
• Python FastAPI+WebSockets docs
• Pymongo docs
• MongoDB docs
• AWS S3 (image handling)
• Twilio (video chat)

Setting up and running

I've set it up so that you only need to use the run script to start. Be sure to set the S3 environement variables for access

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate chat_app
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=...
cp config.template.py config.py # edit config.py and fill with your values/credentials
./run

For quick API documentation, navigate to localhost:8000/docs after starting the server

Dependencies

This app uses a couple of 3rd party resources for all of it's functionality.

• AWS S3 is used for storing the user's profile images and fetching them.
• Twilio is used for the group video chat capability.
• MongoDB is used to persist all data to the database.

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